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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

Marked by aggression and hostility, or warlike in nature

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

over-particular

difficult to please

impossible to please

on someone's back

severely critical

full of reproof

uncomplimentary

dishonouring^UK

scandalmongering

disadvantageous

straightforward

straight from the shoulder

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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

on a short fuse

as cross as two sticks

hot under the collar

easily offended

having got out of bed the wrong side

having got out of bed on the wrong side

bundle of nerves

huffy irascible

bent out of shape

foaming at the mouth

not best pleased

uncommunicative

unaccommodating

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

having short fuse

hot under collar

with a long face

got up on wrong side of bed

easily frightened

easily agitated

with chip on shoulder

with a chip on your shoulder

evil-intentioned

dripping with malice

carrying a chip on your shoulder

uncomplimentary

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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

over-fastidious

excessively orderly

dotting the i's

crossing the t's

scrutinising^UK

scrutinizing^US

extremely particular

discriminational

selfdisciplined

going to great lengths

with good taste

individualizing^US

individualising^UK

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Adjective

Marked by aggression and hostility, or warlike in nature

confrontational

spoiling for a fight

ready for a fight

have chip on shoulder

having a chip on one's shoulder

looking for trouble

have a bone to pick

ill-humoured^UK

on a short fuse

itching to fight

insurrectionary

dead set against

dissenting from

acting in opposition

in disagreement with

at variance with

evil-intentioned

ill-disciplined

socially impaired

undisciplinable

beyond the pale

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Adjective

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

uncomplimentary

full of contempt

tongue-in-cheek

quietly humorous

having reservations

high and mighty

on your high horse

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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

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Adjective

Insincere or hypocritical in nature

Adjective

Having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

as sharp as a tack

cloak-and-dagger

under the table

crazy like a fox

like a snake in the grass

unsportsmanlike

under the counter

hole-and-corner

not entirely truthful

terminologically inexact

economical with the truth

not to be trusted

sharp as a tack

not born yesterday

quick off the mark

quick on the uptake

playing politics

not straightforward

treating with kid gloves

thinking outside the box

lacking sincerity

with tongue in cheek

walking on eggs

handling with kid gloves

keeping on one's toes

on the qui vive

watching one's step

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