ill-humored

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ill-humored
    adj 1: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a
           crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff
           manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: {crusty}, {curmudgeonly},
           {gruff}, {ill-humored}, {ill-humoured}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ill-humored \ill-humored\ ill-humoured \ill-humoured\adj.
   ill-natured; having a sour, disagreeable, or surly
   disposition. Opposite of {good-natured}.

   Syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-humored":
      argumental, argumentative, bad-tempered, combative, contentious,
      controversial, dialectic, disputatious, eristic, evil-tempered,
      ill-affected, ill-disposed, ill-natured, ill-tempered, litigious,
      logomachic, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome

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