| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, ugly, waspish. Informal : crabby, mean2. Idioms: out of sorts. See ATTITUDE. 2. Easily annoyed: choleric, irascible, peppery, quick-tempered, tetchy, touchy. See FEELINGS.
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