cantankerous

cantankerous
    adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
           "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about
           demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn:
           {bloody-minded}, {cantankerous}]
    2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
       and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn:
       {cantankerous}, {crotchety}, {ornery}]
    

Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
   Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
   {Can*tan"ker*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         The cantankerous old maiden aunt.        --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster] Cantar
    

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "cantankerous":
      bad-tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric,
      churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained,
      crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour,
      dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, froward, grouchy, grumpy,
      huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, ill-natured, ill-tempered,
      irascible, irritable, liverish, mean, morose, ornery, peevish,
      perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, spiteful,
      spleeny, splenetic, stuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy,
      touchy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward,
      wrongheaded