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nasty-tempered
adjective as in crabby
Weak matches
- 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-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in crabby/crabbed
Weak matches
- 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-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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Example Sentences
He's drinking and excited, and he has a strong and nasty-tempered force behind him.
She actually began to wonder also if she was "nasty tempered."
He was a nasty-tempered fellow, as any one could see, and the opposition offered by his wife hardly helped to smooth his anger.
That's the worst of this breed of brown portmanteaus—they're always nasty-tempered.
There is a raw, nasty-tempered creature in the next stall, but nearly every one has fought shy of him.
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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nasty-tempered, such as: acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, and blunt.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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