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Most cantankerous

Synonyms for "most cantankerous" (70 found)

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Informal (15)

Adj, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

cross

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

mean

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

nasty

Adj, noun, slang(5 words)

stuffy stubborn crusty bitchy grumpy

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

ugly

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

moody

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

prickly

Adj, slang(3 words)

touchy ornery huffy

Adj, adv, verb, slang(1 words)

cussed

General use (55)

Adj, noun, verb(4 words)

sour perverse sullen gruff

Adj, adv, noun, verb(1 words)

contrary

Adjective(34 words)

cranky irritable unfeeling fractious wayward petulant quarrelsome querulous churlish irascible crotchety bilious morose testy spiteful crabby excitable cross-grained grouchy snappish

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waspish tetchy bearish feisty wrongheaded ill-tempered vinegarish bad-tempered ill-natured vinegary huffish spleeny liverish ill-conditioned

Adj, noun(5 words)

disagreeable choleric dour splenetic dyspeptic

Adj, adv(2 words)

peevish surly

Adjective(3 words)

ornery bloody-minded crotchety

Adj, verb(3 words)

difficult crabbed cankered

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

sulky

cross grained

Adj, prep(1 words)

froward

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