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ill-humored
adjective as in cantankerous
adjective as in crabby
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- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in crabby/crabbed
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- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in cranky
adjective as in cross
adjective as in crusty
adjective as in ill-natured
adjective as in irritable
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- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
adjective as in moody
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- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
adjective as in morose
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- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- dolorous
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- moody
- moping
- perverse
- perversive
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- taciturn
- troubled
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in sulky
adjective as in sullen
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Example Sentences
So Bud was perfectly aware of the fact that he would be missed, and he was ill-humored enough to be glad of it.
Even now she had shuffled back into her kitchen, leaving her ill-humored lodger to puff away at the malodorous weed as he chose.
A few women passed the door of the bar with an ill-humored air, gesticulating among themselves.
The Prince and Castro are unbearably ill-humored; they talk scarcely at all and pay no attention whatever to me.
And, far more discouraging, the magical self-binder itself suddenly became ill-humored and refused to form its sheaves properly.
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On this page you'll find 597 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-humored, such as: cranky, dour, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, and prickly.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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