irascible
tetchy ; peevish ; irascible ; crabby ; short ; short-tempered ; off-hand [offhand] ; ornery ; waspish ; explosive ; testy ; quick-tempered ; ill-tempered ; liverish.
CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
Lawson was a quick-tempered young woman but she also had a good heart and liked to dance when the mood struck her.
Ill-tempered girls were also twice as likely as even-tempered girls to be divorced women at midlife (26% vs. 12%).
Some people, being excessively liverish, cannot refrain from fuming with rage and shouting abuse when they come across stories of injustice, ignorance and foul play in the newspapers.
