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  • 21bellicose — adj 1. aggressive, antagonistic, combative, belligerent, pugnacious; hostile, unfriendly, inimical; contentious, quarrelsome, dissentious, wrangling, litigious, disputatious, argumentative; opposed, faultfinding, captious; contrary, perverse,… …

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  • 22choleric — adj irascible, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused; testy, crusty, fractious, touchy, thin skinned, edgy, on edge, Sl. uptight, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, atrabilious, cranky, ill humored, ill tempered, Australian …

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  • 23irascible — adj testy, touchy, thin skinned, irritable, edgy, Sl. uptight, hasty; choleric, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused, Inf. trigger happy; cross, surly, churlish, snappy, snappish, waspish, petulant, peevish, huffy, huffish,… …

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  • 24irate — adj 1. wrathful, wroth, very angry, ireful, incensed; enraged, raging, fuming, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated, red hot, white hot; distraught, overwrought, upset, feverish, hysterical, not… …

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  • 25liverish — adj 1. jaundiced, yellow, yellowed, yellowish, yellow faced, yellow tinged, yellow skinned; sallow, sickly, pale, wan. 2. bilious, atrabilious, spleeny, spleenful; bitter, sour, soured, Inf. sour as a crab apple; disagreeable, crabbed, crabby,… …

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  • 26morose — adj sullen, saturnine, somber, sober, austere, severe, stern, taciturn, silent; glum, gloomy, grum, grim, frowning, scowling, dark, black, bleak, dismal, long faced; lugubrious, atrabilious, atrabiliar, funereal, morbid, mournful, melancholy,… …

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  • 27nettled — adj annoyed, peeved, put out, vexed, irritated; piqued, chafed, galled, riled; offended, affronted, displeased, on the outs with, indignant; worked up, Inf. hot under the collar, stirred up, Inf. sore, Sl. ticked off, Sl. teed off; kindled,… …

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  • 28passionate — adj 1. impassioned, impassionate, ardent, vehement, zealous; overzealous, overeager, overanxious, Inf. gung ho; fervent, fervid, perfervid; earnest, eager, animated, enthusiastic, enthused, Inf. psyched or psyched up; excited, sparkling, glowing …

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  • 29wrathful — adj 1. irate, ireful, angry, wroth, incensed; enraged, raging, fuming, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated, red hot, white hot; distraught, overwrought, upset, feverish, hysterical, irrational;… …

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  • 30spleeny — spleen•y [[t]ˈspli ni[/t]] adj. spleen•i•er, spleen•i•est abundant in or displaying spleen; spleenful • Etymology: 1595–1605 …

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