- Churlish
- Churlishly rude
- Fractious
- Morose
- Surely missing the end is rude
- Arrogant; haughty.
- Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe;
sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog;
surly language; a surly look.
- Fractious
- Irascible
- Peevish
- Testy
- Capable of being irriated.
- Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or
exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
- Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation;
capable of being excited to action by the application of certain
stimuli.
- Edgy
- Fractious
- Nervous
- Peevish
- touchy
- Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state
of vexation; as, a fretful temper.