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  • 91sullen — Synonyms and related words: antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle browed, bigoted, black, black browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, case hardened, chapfallen …

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  • 92testy — Synonyms and related words: bad tempered, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, excitable, feisty,… …

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  • 93thwart — Synonyms and related words: across, across the grain, annul, athwart, athwartships, baffle, balk, beat, bench, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, bilk, blast, block, brace, brave, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, cast down,… …

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  • 94ugly — Synonyms and related words: abominable, alarming, awkward, bad, bad tempered, base, bearish, beautiless, bitchy, bitter, blemished, blotted, cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, corrupt, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical,… …

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  • 95waspish — Synonyms and related words: bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, huffish, huffy, impatient, irascible,… …

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  • 96 — 【횡】 가로; 옆; 가로놓다; 가로지르다; 방자하다; 연횡 (전국시대 관동 6국의 병합책) ; 거스르다 木 (나무목) + 黃 (누를황) 木부 12획 (총16획) [1] cross grained; perverse [2] presumptuous and unreasonable [3] unexpected; uncalled for [4] violent; cross 權橫 (권횡) 권력을 믿고 제 멋대로 행동함 奇計縱橫 (기계종횡) 교묘한 꾀를… …

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  • 97morose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky, sullen, gloomy, crabbed, glum, dour. See dejection, irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Gloomy] Syn. depressed, dolorous, melancholy; see sad 1 , troubled 1 . 2. [Ill humored] Syn.… …

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  • 98quarrelsome — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, combative. See irascibility, contention. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Inclined to fight] Syn. factious, combative, pugnacious, contentious, disputatious,… …

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  • 99sullen — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky; ill tempered, ill humored; out of sorts, temper, or humor; crusty, crabbed; sour, surly, discourteous; moody; spleenish, splenetic; resentful; cross[ grained]; perverse, wayward, forward;… …

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  • 100thwart — {{11}}thwart (adv.) c.1200, from O.N. þvert across, originally neut. of thverr (adj.) transverse, across, cognate with O.E. þweorh transverse, perverse, angry, cross, from P.Gmc. *thwerkhaz (Cf. M.Du. dwers, Du. dwars cross grained, contrary, O.H …

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