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  • 91surly — adj 1. cantankerous, irascible, iracund, obnoxious, crabbed, choleric, brusque, peppery, crusty; grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, dyspeptic, thorny, bearish, snarling, growling; cross, feisty, huffy, sulky, sullen, biiious, cranky, peevish, irritable; …

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  • 92venomous — adj 1. poisonous, virulent, envenomed, deadly, toxic, lethal, fatal; noxious, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, deleterious, unwholesome, unhealthy; destructive, ruinous, pernicious, baleful. 2. hostile, resentful, indignant …

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  • 93virulent — adj 1. poisonous, venomous, envenomed, toxic, deadly, lethal, fatal; noxious, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, deleterious, unwholesome, unhealthy; destructive, ruinous, pernicious, baleful; malignant, cancerous; (all of… …

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  • 94waspish — adj 1. resentful, spiteful, peevish, petulant, querulous; touchy, testy, tetchy, thin skinned, prickly, sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, quick to take offense. 2. irritable, irascible, cranky, cross, cantankerous, feisty, huffish;… …

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  • 95sullen — sul•len [[t]ˈsʌl ən[/t]] adj. 1) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve 2) persistently and silently ill humored; morose 3) indicative of gloomy ill humor 4) gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound 5) sluggish, as a… …

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  • 96curmudgeonly — adjective brusque and surly and forbidding crusty remarks a crusty old man his curmudgeonly temper gruff manner a gruff reply • Syn: ↑crusty, ↑gruff, ↑ill hu …

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  • 97Petulant — Pet u*lant, a. [L. petulans, antis, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. p[ e]tulant. See {Petition}.] 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] Burton. [1913 Webster] 2. Capriciously… …

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  • 98stuffy — adjective (stuffier; est) Date: 1798 1. ill natured, ill humored 2. lacking in vitality or interest ; stodgy, dull 3. a. oppressive to the breathing ; close < a stuffy room > …

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  • 99sulk — /sulk/, v.i. 1. to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won t sulk if I want to leave the party early. n. 2. a state or fit of sulking. 3. sulks, ill humor shown by sulking: to be in&#8230; …

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  • 100irascible — I adjective bad tempered, belligerent, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cranky, cross, disobedient, disputatious, dissentious, easily riled, edgy, fiery, fractious, froward, hostile, huffy, ill humored, ill natured,&#8230; …

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