cross-grained
101grouty — a. (Colloq.) Sullen, moody, sulky, surly, morose, cross, glum, grum, spleeny, cynical, crabbed, cross grained, out of humor, out of temper …
102ill-natured — a. 1. Malevolent, unkind, disobliging, unfriendly, unamiable, hateful. 2. Morose, sullen, sulky, cross, churlish, crabbed, sour, perverse, wayward, crusty, petulant, cross grained, ill tempered, acrimonious, bitter …
103sulky — a. Cross, morose, sour, sullen, spleeny, spleenish, splenetic, perverse, wayward, surly, moody, dogged, churlish, mumpish, cross grained, ill tempered, ill humored, in the sulks, out of humor, out of temper, out of tune …
104ugly — a. 1. Unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill looking, ill favored, unprepossessing, uncomely, unlovely. 2. Frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, grewsome, loathsome, monstrous. 3. Cross, ill tempered, cross grained, spiteful …
105crotchety — adjective it s the dreadful arthritis that has made him so crotchety Syn: bad tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, short tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, ill natured, cross grained,… …
106crusty — adjective 1) crusty French bread Syn: crisp, crispy, well baked; crumbly, brittle, friable Ant: soft, soggy 2) a crusty old man Syn: irritable …
107churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …
108contrary — adj 1. opposite, counter, contradictory, contrapositive, converse, antithetical; incompatible, incongruous, irreconcilable, worlds apart, poles apart; discordant, clashing, discrepant, inconsistent. 2. averse, hostile, unfriendly, antagonistic,… …
109fractious — adj 1. peevish, irritable, testy, captious, snappish, quarrelsome, pettish, waspish, touchy; out of sorts, crabbed, grouchy, ill natured, ill humored, cross, splenetic; churlish, acrimonious, bitter, sour, caustic; petulant, sulky, sullen, morose …
110ornery — adj Informal. 1. cantankerous, surly, irascible, iracund, crabbed, crabby; ill natured, unfriendly, obnoxious, choleric; ill tempered, bad tempered, short tempered, quick tempered; brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish,… …
