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Having or showing a bad temper:

cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. (Informal) crabby, mean². Idiom: out of sorts. See attitude

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