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Adjective: bad-tempered  ,bad'tem-pu(r)d
  1. Annoyed and irritable
    "His bad-tempered reaction caught his wife by surprise";
    - crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy [informal], grumpy, ill-tempered, arsey [Brit, informal]

See also: ill-natured