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cantankerous

English

  1. 🔊 having a difficult and contrary disposition
    “a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady”
  2. 🔊 stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
    “unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cascarrabias cantankerous, crotchety, curmudgeonly, grumpy, grouchy, cranky, crabby

Similar words

crotchety ornery bloody-minded bad-tempered bearish bilious bitchy cankered choleric churlish contrary crabbed crabby cranky cross cross-grained crotchety crusty cussed difficult disagreeable dour dyspeptic excitable