What is another word for crotchety?

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What is another word for crotchety?

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anesthetized, bearish, cantankerous, capricious, coldhearted, cranky, cross, grumpy, huffish, peckish, peevish, pettish, short-tempered, testy, uncordial, unfeeling, vinegary, waspish, wrecker, Chuffy, Mumpish, Unamiable, waspy, grousing, ironhearted, vinegarish, out of humor, coldblooded, hotblooded, bad-humored, feelingless, got up on wrong side of bed, hottempered, like a bear, nasty-tempered, out-of-sorts, sensationless, short fused, short-fused, abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, argumentative, bad-tempered, bear, bed, bilious, bolshy, breakaway, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrariness, contrary, counteractive, countervailing, crabby, crank, cross-grained, crusty, curmudgeon, deviant, different, disagreeable, dispute, dissident, divergent, dotty, dyspeptic, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantastic, fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, funny, fuse, grouchy, harebrained, hostile, hot, huffy, idiosyncratic, ill-natured, ill-tempered, impatient, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, kinky, kooky, maggoty, moody, morose, motiveless, nonconformist, notional, nutty, obstreperous, odd, oddball, opposing, ornery, peculiar, peppery, perverse, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, quick temper, quirky, ratty, reactionary, recalcitrant, repugnant, resistant, revolutionary, scrappy, screwball, screwy, sensitivity, short, shrew, singular, snappish, sour, spiky, spoil, strange, stroppy, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, tetchy, touchy, truculent, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagrant, wacky, wanton, wayward, wear, whimsical, Cankered, Chippy, Fantasied, Humorsome, Idiocratic, Oppugnant, Renitent, Vagarious, Contradicting, Counteracting, oppositional, Hell, queer, counteractant, counterworking, deviative, narky, crankish, aberrant, abhorrent, abide, abruptly, absurd, accept, acerbic, acetify, acetose, acetous, acidic, acidify, acidity, acidulate, acidulent, acidulous, acquit, acrid, adverse, affected, aimless, airheaded, airless, alert, allergic, alone, altercate, amusing, antic, antipathetical, apprehensive, approximate, approximative, ardent, argufy, around the bend, article of clothing, asocial, assume, astringent, at odds, atrabilious, atrocious, atypical, average, averse, awful, baby, badly, badness, baffle, ball up, balmy, bang, barbarous, barbed, barbellate, barmy, base, bastardly, bats, batty, be intimate, beggarly, behave, benumb, big, biliary, bilk, birth, bit, bitter, black, bleak, blend, blind drunk, blistering, bloodthirsty, blotto, blow, blue, bluff out, bobble, boisterous, bold, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bolshevik, bolshie, bonk, bonkers, bootless, botch, botch up, bottom, bounderish, brainish, break, breaking away, briary, briery, brisk, bristled, bristly, broody, brook, brusk, brutal, bumble, bumpy, bungle, bunglesome, burred, burry, bust, busy, candid, captive, carry, carving, caseful, casing, causa, cause, chalk, challenge, chapelgoer, character reference, chatoyant, cheerless, chicken feed, chip, churl, clipping, close, clothing, clumsy, coalesce, cocker, cockeyed, cocksure, coddle, combative, combine, comic, commingle, complaintive, comport, conceptional, condemnable, conduct, confident, confirming, conflate, conflict, confounding, contain, contemplative, contestant, contrarious, contravention, convinced, corrosive, corrupt, cosset, counter, cover, cracked, crackers, crank up, crankiness, crawl in, crazy, criminal, crisp, crisscross, crocked, crossbreed, crossbreeding, crossing, crosspatch, crotchet, crotchetiness, crown of thorns, crude, crusted, crustlike, cumbersome, curio, curiosity, curtly, cussed, cut, cut across, cut through, cutting off, daft, dapper, dark, dashing, dazed, dead, deaden, decisive, defective, deflower, degenerate, delicate, delirious, deliver, deoxyephedrine, deplorable, deport, depraved, derisory, despicable, despiteful, despoil, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, detail, detestable, deviate, difference, difference of opinion, digest, dingy, disconnected, disconsolate, discrepant, discriminatory, dispirited, display case, disputatious, disputative, disquieted, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting, distorted, distressed, disturbed, diverging, diversionist, dizzy, do it, dogged, dogmatical, dolt, don, dose, dot, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, drifter, drifting, driving, dull, dullard, easy, eccentric person, edged, eff, egotistic, egotistical, eldritch, electrical fuse, electropositive, elfin, embarrassing, empty-headed, enamored, encase, encrusted, endanger, endure, entail, erosive, especial, event, evil, example, exceeding, excessive, excited, expect, expose, extreme right-winger, face, fag, fag out, fall apart, false, fanatic, far-out, far-right, farcical, fatigue, featherbed, featherbrained, feisty, fell, ferment, fervent, fervid, fiber, fibre, fictional character, fictitious character, fidgety, fierce, film editing, filthy, fishy, fissiparous, flake off, flakey, flaming, fleck, floater, floating, flub, fluff, fluid, flux, flyaway, flyblown, foil, font, forbidding, foreign, forged, forgetful, forthright, foul, fount, four flush, frank, frantic, freaky, free-spoken, frightful, frizzly, frizzy, frosty, fruitcake, fruitless, fruity, frustrate, fuck up, fuddled, fumble, funny story, fusee, futile, fuze, fuzee, gaga, gainsay, gestate, get across, get into, get it on, get laid, get over, ghastly, give birth, glass, gloomful, glooming, glowering, go bad, go to bed, go to sleep, good story, goofy, grammatical case, grand, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol, grating, gravelly, grisly, grouch, gruesome, grumble, grump, grumpiness, guerilla, guerrilla, guinea pig, half-baked, harassed, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardhearted, harried, harsh, hateful, have, have a go at it, have in mind, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have on, have sex, haywire, head-in-the-clouds, heavy, heretical, heterodox, high-risk, high-strung, highly strung, hit the hay, hit the sack, hoarse, hold, hold out, homophile, horrible, horrifying, howling, hump, husky, hybrid, hybridisation, hybridise, hybridization, hybridize, hybridizing, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, hysteric, ice, ideational, idiotic, igneous, ill at ease, ill-bred, ill-chosen, ill-mannered, imaginary, immix, immune, impair, impassioned, imperviable, impetuous, imply, imprisoned, improper, in love, inadequate, inapt, incompatible, incontrovertible, incubation, indisposed, indulge, inept, inexorable, infeasible, inordinate, insane, instance, insubordinate, insurgent, intend, interbreed, interbreeding, interrupted, intersect, irascibility, iridescent, irrefutable, itch, itchy, item, jade, jailed, jaunty, jazz, jejune, jittery, jolting, jolty, jumpy, keen, kip down, knifelike, know, kookie, laconic, lancinate, lancinating, lawsuit, layer, left, left over, leftover, lie with, lienal, light, light-headed, lightheaded, lineament, litigious, little, live, lively, livery, loaded, loath, loco, loony, loopy, loose, loth, louse up, love, low, low-spirited, lowbred, lowering, luxuriate, macabre, mad, madcap, make love, make out, mar, mark, marvellous, marvelous, marxist, matchless, maverick, mean value, meanspirited, meditative, medium, melancholy, meld, mentally ill, merge, merry, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, methedrine, mingy, mirthful, miserly, mishandle, misrepresented, mix, mollycoddle, monstrous, mordacious, mordant, moth-eaten, muck up, murmur, murmuration, musing, mussitation, mutter, muttering, mutually exclusive, myopic, nance, nappy, narrow, natty, natural, nervous, nervy, nettled, nettlesome, newspaper clipping, nipping, nippy, nonconcentric, nonconforming, nonpareil, nonsensical, numb, nut, nut case, nutlike, nuts, obdurate, objectionable, objector, obscene, oddment, oddness, off, off-and-on, off-key, old-time, olympian, one, one and only, opponent, opposite, opprobrious, outre, outspoken, outwear, over-the-top, overconfident, overcritical, overstrung, overzealous, pamper, pane, pansy, part, pass over, pathetic, pay, peaky, peculiarity, peel, peel off, peerless, peeved, pensive, pensiveness, perfervid, peril, persistent, persona, pertinacious, perverseness, perversity, pervert, perverted, pestered, picky, piddle, piddle away, pie-eyed, piercing, pillow slip, pillowcase, pissed off, pixilated, plainspoken, planetary, plastered, plunder, plus, point-blank, poisonous, pondering, poof, poor, poor fish, poove, positively charged, positivist, positivistic, potty, pouf, precarious, precipitous, predisposition, prescribed, press clipping, press cutting, primer, priming, primitive, prodigious, promiscuous, protester, pudden-head, pudding head, pungent, quality, quarrel, queen, queerness, quicksilver, quirk, quirkiness, rabid, radical, raffish, raging, rakish, rancid, rare, raring, rarity, rasping, rattling, raw, reactionist, recusant, red, reference, reflective, refractory, regretful, relentless, remaining, remarkable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, resistive, restive, retire, reverse, revolutionist, riled, risible, risky, roadster, rocky, roiled, role, roll in the hay, rotatory, rough in, rough out, roughly, roughshod, round the bend, rum, rumble, rumbling, ruminative, rummy, saboteur, sack out, safety fuse, sanguinary, sardonic, saturnine, savage, scant, scatterbrained, scotch, scrap, scratchy, screw up, screw-loose, scupper, scurrilous, seam, second, self-conceited, self-contradictory, self-opinionated, sensibility, sensible, sensitised, sensitiveness, sensitized, separatist, sepulchral, shabby, shady, sharp, sheath, sheer, shell, shockable, short temper, short-change, shortly, shortsighted, shortstop, shot, showcase, shrewmouse, sick, signify, silly, sinful, singular form, sleep with, slimy, slip, slopped, sloshed, sluggish, sluttish, smashed, smitten, smutty, snorty, snowflake, soaked, sober, soft on, softheaded, somber, sore, sorry, sourness, soused, sozzled, span, spanking, spasmodic, special, specific, speculative, spicy, spiffy, spiny, spiritualist, spleen, splenic, spoilage, spoilation, spoiled, spoiling, spoilt, spoliation, spooky, spruce, squiffy, stabbing, stand, stand for, stark, starter, steamed, stern, stick out, sticky, stiff, sting, stodgy, stomach, stonyhearted, stubborn, stung, stunned, stupefied, stupid person, subject, subversive, subverter, suddenly, suffer, suit, sulfurous, sulphurous, superman, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, support, surpassing, suspect, suspicious, susurrant, sweep, swollen, swollen-headed, take over, taken with, tartness, tatty, tearaway, techy, temporary, tenacious, tender, termagant, terrific, terse, theatrical role, thin-skinned, think, think of, thinning, thorny, threatening, thwart, thwartwise, ticklish, tight, tippy, tire, tire out, tolerant, tolerate, torrid, touched, tough, tow car, tow truck, track, traditionalist, transversal, transverse, trash, traverse, treacherous, tremendous, trifle, trifle away, turn, turn in, turned, typecast, typeface, typewrite, ultraconservative, unaired, unappeasable, unawares, uncanny, uncertain, uncheerful, uncollectible, unconformist, uncongenial, unconsidered, uncut, underbred, undue, unearthly, uneasy, unenviable, unequaled, unequalled, uneven, unexpended, unfeasible, unfirm, unfit, unforesightful, unforgiving, unfriendly, ungainly, unintelligent, unknown, unlawful, unmanageable, unmannered, unmannerly, unmatchable, unmated, unpaired, unparalleled, unprompted, unprovoked, unregenerate, unrelenting, unrepentant, unretentive, unrivaled, unrivalled, unsettled, unsmooth, unsound, unsuasible, unsympathetic, unworkable, unworthy, upbeat, upset, uptight, vagabond, vain, variable quantity, variable star, varying, venomous, vertiginous, vesture, vile, vindictive, violate, virulent, vital, vitiate, vitriolic, wandering, wanton away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin, wear upon, wearable, wearing, weary, wet, whacky, whiney, whiny, whipping, whispering, wild, wonderful, wondrous, woozy, work, worthless, wretched, wyrd, yield, yokelish, zany, zen, zigzag, zippy, back breaker, battery-acid, loony toons, window pane, shabu, crackpot, pillock, turn out, put on, have a bun in the oven, put up, mess up, foul up, off-the-wall, straight-from-the-shoulder, antsy, cruddy, sleep together, bad-mannered, curly-grained, particular proposition, wavy-grained, fairy, muff, screw, gay, pissed, rape, fuck, faggot, fagot, compositor's case, typesetter's case, funny remark, positive degree, red-hot, short-circuit, way-out, clochard, crotchety, illhumored, most ill humored, ill humored, more ill-humored, most illhumored, dis-agreeable, more vinegarish, obstinate, more bearish, more ill humored, most vinegary, badtempered, bad tempered, most ill-humored, more vinegary, most vinegarish, ill-humored, most bearish, dis agreeable, more illhumored, flighty, mutable, changeful, yo-yo, mercurial, YOYO, oddest, up and down, any way the wind blows, chuffiest, more mumpish, chuffier, most mumpish, mis anthropic, more nastytempered, gloomy, most crabbed, un sociable, more splenetic, more nasty-tempered, most splenetic, splenetic, nasty tempered, nastytempered, most nasty-tempered, more difficult, mis-anthropic, more nasty tempered, most nasty tempered, un-sociable, most nastytempered, like bear, quicktempered, more bad-humored, most cussed, got on wrong side bed, got up wrong side of bed, got up on wrong side bed, quick tempered, hot tempered, got up wrong side bed, badhumored, most bad-humored, more bad humored, got upon wrong side of bed, bad humored, more badhumored, most badhumored, most bad humored, got wrong side bed, got wrong side of bed, got on wrong side of bed, got upon wrong side bed, out sorts, more cussed, more vexed, most caviling, more pettish, more caviling, most vexed, out humor, faultfinding, most pettish, un easiest, un-easier, un easy, un easier, un-easiest, worried, wreckest, more griping, dis-satisfied, grumbling, dis satisfied, most griping, more moping, most moping, ex asperated, more irked, more huffish, more riled, most nettled, more piqued, more exasperated, most riled, most exasperated, more nettled, miffed, most piqued, ex-asperated, most irked, most huffish, un friendlier, un-friendly, tempersome, un kinder, un-kinder, most tempersome, un pleasant, dis obliging, un friendliest, un kind, un-pleasant, ill natured, dis-obliging, un-kind, un-friendlier, un-kindest, illnatured, un-friendliest, more tempersome, un kindest, more whining, most growling, most grousing, ogrer, fault finding, most whining, more out-of-sorts, most out of sorts, ogrest, waspier, most out-of-sorts, waspiest, more grousing, more out of sorts, more growling, more shortfused, shortfused, shorttempered, more peckish, more short-fused, short tempered, most short-fused, most short fused, most shortfused, hot blooded, most peckish, more short fused, thinskinned, up tight, thin skinned, up-tight, more anesthetized, Iron-hearted, more deadened, more sensationless, un-emotional, in-sensitive, in-sensate, un-cordial, un cordial, more ironhearted, most unamiable, most iron-hearted, un amiable, un-amiable, in sensate, more iron hearted, un feeling, un emotional, thick skinned, most deadened, more uncordial, in-animate, in sensible, un caring, in sensitive, most anesthetized, more iron-hearted, un-compassionate, most uncordial, most iron hearted, un sympathetic, in animate, be numbed, thickskinned, un-caring, un-feeling, more unamiable, in-sensible, in human, in-human, un compassionate, ex-acting, cold blooded, be-numbed, more feelingless, most sensationless, most feelingless, cold hearted, ex acting, most ironhearted, iron hearted, hot-tempered, sensitive, anesthetized

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