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Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

Feeling irritable, bad-tempered, or grumpy

Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

Having a predisposition to fight or engage in confrontations

Irritable, often due to old age

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious

Insincere or hypocritical in nature

Having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature

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Adjective

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

pass-remarkable

unfavourable^UK

over-censorious

difficult to please

impossible to please

on someone's back

severely critical

full of reproof

uncomplimentary

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“If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery.”

Adjective

That captures

Adjective

Feeling irritable, bad-tempered, or grumpy

ill-humoured^UK

like a bear with a sore head

as cross as two sticks

having got out of bed the wrong side

on a short fuse

hot under the collar

having got out of bed on the wrong side

easily offended

huffy irascible

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Adjective

Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

over-particular

pass-remarkable

difficult to please

impossible to please

easily disgusted

unaccommodating

high-maintenance

over-censorious

hard to satisfy

unfavourable^UK

over-fastidious

selfdisciplined

going to great lengths

excessively orderly

minding p's and q's

extremely careful

discriminational

dotting the i's

crossing the t's

individualising^UK

individualizing^US

with good taste

well thought-out

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Adjective

Having a predisposition to fight or engage in confrontations

confrontational

ready for a fight

spoiling for a fight

have chip on shoulder

having a chip on one's shoulder

looking for trouble

have a bone to pick

passive-aggressive

ill-humoured^UK

insurrectionary

at daggers drawn

individualistic

battle-hardened

covertly narcissistic

insurrectionist

itching to fight

unaccommodating

having short fuse

hot under collar

ill-disciplined

socially impaired

undisciplinable

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Adjective

Irritable, often due to old age

ill-humoured^UK

on a short fuse

like a bear with a sore head

as cross as two sticks

easily offended

bundle of nerves

foaming at the mouth

not best pleased

hot under the collar

bent out of shape

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Adjective

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

tongue-in-cheek

extremely critical

uncomplimentary

passive-aggressive

evil-intentioned

rubbing the wrong way

dripping with malice

with tongue in cheek

full of contempt

quietly humorous

dishonorable^US

unsportsmanlike

ill-humoured^UK

dishonourable^UK

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Adjective

Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious

seemingly correct

apparently right

plausible but wrong

unsubstantiated

without foundation

wide of the mark

misrepresentative

economical with the truth

open to question

not backed up by evidence

contrary to fact

not trustworthy

without substantiation

unstraightforward

on the wrong track

out of commission

devoid of validity

phantasmagorical

double-crossing

dishonourable^UK

fool's paradise

dishonorable^US

phantasmagorial

phantasmagorian

all in the mind

misrepresenting

committing perjury

not to be depended on

not to be trusted

all in one's head

figment of imagination

product of someone's imagination

imperceptible to the touch

out of this world

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Adjective

Insincere or hypocritical in nature

Adjective

Having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

sticky-fingered

unconscientious

unsportsmanlike

nimble-fingered

under the table

crazy like a fox

cloak-and-dagger

as sharp as a tack

like a snake in the grass

under the counter

not entirely truthful

terminologically inexact

economical with the truth

double-crossing

not to be trusted

of dubious character

potentially illegal

treating with kid gloves

against the rules

hole-and-corner

playing politics

not straightforward

lacking sincerity

with tongue in cheek

thinking outside the box

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