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bad-tempered(adjective, cross, emotional, vulnerable, touchy)
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badly(adjective, sad, unhappy, sorrow, suffer)
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baleful(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
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bearish(adjective, difficult, cross, negative, emotional)
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beefing(adjective, gloomy, sorrowful, pathetic, mournful)
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begrudging(adjective, upset, unhappy, angry, irritated)
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bellyaching(adjective, sorrowful, pathetic, mournful, woebegone)
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bemoaning(difficult, critical, sour, discontented, uptight)
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bewailing
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black
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bothered(adjective, upset, unhappy, angry, irritated)
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brooding(adjective, cross, emotional, vulnerable, touchy)
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calamitous(sad, unhappy, miserable, wretched, sorrowful)
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careworn
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carping(adjective, difficult, cross, negative, emotional)
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censorious(difficult, critical, discontented, complaining, bearish)
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contentious(adjective, cross, emotional, vulnerable, touchy)
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crabbed(adjective, cross, emotional, vulnerable, touchy)
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crabby(adjective, upset, cross, unhappy, emotional)
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cross(adjective, difficult, negative, emotional, critical)
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