obstinate, stubborn, peevish, rebarbative, captious, husbandly, schoolmarmish, truculent, delusory, disdainful, implacable, dyspeptic, doltish, imperturbable, haughty, good naturedness, cloddish, unwonted, distempered, pigheaded, somnambulistic, uxorious, grumbly, maidenly, grumpy, swiftian, purblind, egocentric, wolfish, thickheaded, humorless, scatty, overdetermined, exasperated, wifely, palsied, ornery, feckless, cranky, empiricist, oafish, puppyish, adamantine, pompous, slothful, dostoevskian, amour propre, brusk, cocksure, onanistic, choleric, rageful, imperious, stoical, crabby, splenetic, obstreperous, unyielding, priggish, timorous, muddleheaded, headstrong, unregenerate, phlegmatic, egoistical, cantankerous, proprietorial, lunkheaded, nietzschean, sneery, jocose, blithe, bathetic, jejune, saintlike, vainglorious, sanctimonious, jesuitical, bumptious, unthinking, uncouth, smug, monomaniacal, consternated, insouciant, larky, goatish, monkish, snappish, ineloquent, johnsonian, irascible, sullen, brattish, beetling, whiggish, reflexive, curmudgeonly, graceless, stolid, hypochondriacal, unbending, dogged, surly, petulant, arrogant, obdurate, pugnacious, defiant, morose, reticent, sulky, unsociable, distrustful, resolute, dour

hardheaded