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Disposed to being angry or irritable

Characterized by dissatisfaction or disgruntlement

Being mournful or feeling sorrow

Adjective

Disposed to being angry or irritable

ill-humoured^UK

like a bear with a sore head

on a short fuse

as cross as two sticks

uncommunicative

having got out of bed the wrong side

having got out of bed on the wrong side

hot under the collar

confrontational

unaccommodating

evil-intentioned

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

having short fuse

hot under collar

easily offended

got up on wrong side of bed

with a long face

down in the mouth

having a fit of the sulks

passive-aggressive

huffy irascible

easily frightened

easily agitated

with chip on shoulder

with a chip on your shoulder

not best pleased

bent out of shape

ready for a fight

have chip on shoulder

foaming at the mouth

spoiling for a fight

having a chip on one's shoulder

have a bone to pick

insurrectionary

at daggers drawn

individualistic

itching to fight

looking for trouble

dead set against

dissenting from

acting in opposition

in disagreement with

at variance with

bundle of nerves

set in one's ways

pass-remarkable

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“The kids would run down the street, hoping the parachute would land in an open area, or in the yard of a nice neighbor, and not a crabby neighbor.”

Adjective

Characterized by dissatisfaction or disgruntlement

fed up to the teeth

fed up to the back teeth

with a chip on your shoulder

not best pleased

hot under the collar

in high dudgeon

foaming at the mouth

bent out of shape

ill-humoured^UK

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Adjective

Being mournful or feeling sorrow

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

having blue devils

having the blahs

singing the blues

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

discountenanced

as sick as a parrot

with a long face

deeply saddened

heavy with grief

conscience-stricken

overcome with sorrow

on the verge of tears

discombobulated

down-in-the-mouth

extremely saddened

sorry for yourself

deeply regretful

self-reproachful

racked with suffering

racked with pain

mentally defeated

with tears in your eyes

strictly business

at the end of your tether

longing for home

prostrate with grief

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

full of despair

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

emotionally defeated

at end of one's rope

given to looking on the black side

poverty-stricken

in floods of tears

lacking in confidence

lacking in enthusiasm

having lost heart

at sixes and sevens

in sackcloth and ashes

extremely sorry

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