cranky, cantankerous, irascible, grumpy, crotchety, crabby, grouchy, rambunctious, stubborn, surly, feisty, mouthy, temperamental, excitable, incorrigible, obstreperous, truculent, obnoxious, cocky, gruff, frisky, irritable, lovable, curmudgeonly, bullheaded, obstinate, easygoing, snappish, snarly, pigheaded, softhearted, runty, peevish, growly, uptight, bristly, unruly, headstrong, incommunicative, standoffish, recalcitrant, mulish, arrogant, rascally, tenderhearted, bossy, eccentric, inquisitive, chatty, belligerent, quarrelsome, yeller, wolfish, goofy, rowdy, oddball, taciturn, humorless, smart aleck, brusk, mischievous, mangy, gregarious, docile, argumentative, abrasive, whiny, wily, grumbly, pushy, finicky, amiable, impatient, boisterous, affable, crusty, old codger, uppity, brutish, dyspeptic, pesty, grizzled, squirmy, hotheaded, prickly, combative, dopey, petulant, garrulous, timid, unlikable, cocksure, opinionated, troublemaking, prideful, overprotective, rawboned, egotistical, yappy, talkative, wimpy, prissy, lonesome, silly, cheap, queer, rude, sensible, smart, sure, annoying, cheerful, cool, fool, homesick, lies, quick, slick, tempting, aggravating, boring, close, spunky, shy, likeable, likable, stupid, lazy, nervy, skittish, sneaky, fidgety, scrawny, sociable, unsociable

ill-natured