All ill-natured synonyms

adj ill-natured

• bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
• catty — If someone, especially a woman or girl, is being catty, they are being unpleasant and unkind.
• churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
• crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
• dirty — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
• disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
• dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
• hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
• irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
• malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
• malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
• mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
• nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
• ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
• perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
• spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
• sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
• sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
• surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
• temperamental — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
• touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
• unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
• unkind — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
• unpleasant — not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
• crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
• cussed — obstinate
• ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.