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  • 41feisty touchy — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 42huffish sulky — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 43misanthropic misanthropical — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 44misogynous — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 45nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful trying — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 46shrewish nagging vixenish — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 47surly ugly — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 48sullen — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky; ill tempered, ill humored; out of sorts, temper, or humor; crusty, crabbed; sour, surly, discourteous; moody; spleenish, splenetic; resentful; cross[ grained]; perverse, wayward, forward;… …

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  • 49irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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  • 50morose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky, sullen, gloomy, crabbed, glum, dour. See dejection, irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Gloomy] Syn. depressed, dolorous, melancholy; see sad 1 , troubled 1 . 2. [Ill humored] Syn.… …

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