ill-natured

adjectives

having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

ill-natured

antonym

good-natured

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irritable as if suffering from indigestion

atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish

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very irritable

"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish

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having a difficult and contrary disposition

"a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

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quickly aroused to anger

"a hotheaded commander"

choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered

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having a bad disposition; surly

"churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

churlish

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annoyed and irritable

bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered

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easily irritated or annoyed

"an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy

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brusque and surly and forbidding

"crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured

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resembling a cur; snarling and rude

currish

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showing a brooding ill humor

"a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

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unpleasant to interact with

"a disagreeable old man"

disagreeable

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sullen or moody

huffish, sulky

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hating mankind in general

misanthropic, misanthropical

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hating women in particular

misogynistic, misogynous

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(British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed

shirty, snorty

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continually complaining or faultfinding

"a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"

nagging, shrewish

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apt to speak irritably

"a snappish tone of voice"

snappish, snappy

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having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention

"a spoiled child"

spoiled, spoilt

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inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

surly, ugly

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having a sour disposition; ill-tempered

vinegarish, vinegary