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bad-tempered
adjective as in perversely irritable
adjective as in mean
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
adjective as in perverse
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Weak matches
- abnormal
- cantankerous
- capricious
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
- deviant
- disobedient
- dogged
- erring
- fractious
- hard-nosed
- headstrong
- intractable
- intransigent
- irritable
- miscreant
- mulish
- nefarious
- obdurate
- obstinate
- petulant
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- refractory
- rotten
- self-willed
- spiteful
- stubborn
- unhealthy
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unyielding
- villainous
- wayward
- willful
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in quarrelsome
Strongest matches
adjective as in short
adjective as in sullen
Weak matches
adjective as in testy
adjective as in touchy
Strongest matches
adjective as in truculent
Weak matches
- abusive
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- barbarous
- bellicose
- browbeating
- brutal
- bullying
- caustic
- combative
- contentious
- contumelious
- cowing
- cross
- defiant
- ferocious
- fierce
- frightening
- harsh
- hostile
- inhuman
- inhumane
- intimidating
- invective
- mean
- militant
- mordacious
- mordant
- obstreperous
- opprobrious
- ornery
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- rude
- savage
- scathing
- scrappy
- scurrilous
- sharp
- sullen
- terrifying
- terrorizing
- trenchant
- violent
- vituperative
- vituperous
adjective as in crabby
Weak matches
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- 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
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in cantankerous
adjective as in bad-tempered
adjective as in bitchy
adjective as in crabbed
adjective as in tetchy
adjective as in crabby/crabbed
Weak matches
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- 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
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in crotchety
adjective as in disgruntled
Strong matches
adjective as in grumpy
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Example Sentences
The result was therefore foul-mouthed and bad-tempered in proportion to the force it took to get through my wall of shyness.
And still, the bad-tempered second half did not yield a goal.
The nation is feeling even more bad tempered, broke and anxious than it did the weeks before.
I don't think I could ever be content under a bad-tempered, sentimentalism, strenuous Government.
I've met him; he's a bad-tempered hypochondriac, a cynic at heart, and a man whose word is never doubted.
A bad-tempered woman is described as a "vixen," or female fox; a lazy person as a "drone," or the bee which does no work.
"He is always bad-tempered when we come to the Court," she said.
He's a bad-tempered brute, and I wonder the squire keeps it.
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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bad-tempered, such as: atrabilious, cantankerous, snarly, splenetic, surly, and waspish.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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