Having a difficult and contrary disposition; SYN. crotchety, ornery.

Irritated; difficult in temperament; surly.

Brusque and surly and forbidding; SYN. curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured.

ETYM Cf. French dur, Latin durus hard.
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; SYN. forbidding, grim.

ETYM Cf. Prov. Eng. frack forward, eager, Eng. freak, fridge; or Prov. Eng. fratch to squabble, quarrel.
1. Stubbornly resistant to authority or control; SYN. refractory.
2. Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.
Irritable; peevish.

Reflecting gloom; SYN. gloomy, long-faced.

ETYM Latin morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, from mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. French morose.
1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
2. Brooding over evil thoughts.

Moody silent; sullen; morose.

ETYM Old Eng. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French from (assumed) Late Lat. solanus solitary, from Latin solus alone. Related to Sole.
1. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
2. Lonely; solitary; desolate.
3. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

Sullen, cross, irritable, ill-tempered
Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; SYN. ugly.

In a bad mood.

In an irritated manner, disagreeably

Harshly; morosely

In a sullen manner; SYN. sullenly, glumly.

In a fractious manner.

Gloomily, sullenly; despondently

In a morose manner.

In a sullen manner; sulkily, morosely; gloomily; slowly, sluggishly