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| fiery(adjective, difficult, cross, irritable, emotional) | |
| fretting(adjective, mean, cross, irritable, emotional) | |
| grumbling(adjective, difficult, cross, negative, irritable) | |
| hard-nosed(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| hasty(adjective, difficult, cross, irritable, emotional) | |
| hot(adjective, nasty, cross, determined, hostile) | |
| hypercritical(adjective, severe, cross, emotional, contrary) | |
| hypersensitive(adjective, delicate, sensitive, emotional, vulnerable) | |
| ignoble(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| infamous(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| knavish(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| lousy(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| low-down and dirty(expression, adjective, idiom, hard, evil) | |
| malicious(adjective, mean, bad, hard, wrong) | |
| malign(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) | |
| ogre(mean, cross, irritable, ugly) | |
| out of humor(expression, adjective, idiom, cross, short) | |
| out of sorts(expression, adjective, idiom, mean, difficult) | |
| oversensitive(adjective, delicate, cross, sensitive, emotional) | |
| perfidious(adjective, hard, evil, rough, nasty) |
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