ORNERY

Not at all good-humored

• Bad tempered

• Cantankerous

• Captious

• Challenging or cruel

• Contumacious

• Crabbed

• Crotchety

• Crotchety and cantankerous

• Curmudgeonlike

• Curmudgeonly

• Difficult

• Difficult to deal with

• Downright mean

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• Hard to get along with

• Hard to manage: Dial.

• Hard to please

• Having a mean streak

• Ill-natured

• Ill-tempered

• Irascible

• Like a cantankerous old coot

• Like a grouch

• Like a junkyard dog

• Like a mule, stereotypically

• Like mean critters

• Like Yosemite Sam

• Mean

• Mean and nasty

• Mean as a snake

• Mean or stubborn

• Mean-spirited

• Mean-tempered

• Not at all nice

• Obstinate

• Pig-headed

• Really testy

• Splenetic

• Stubborn

• Stubborn as a mule

• Surly

• Tough to deal with