testy, prickly, tense, grumpy, unforthcoming, waspish, combative, acrimonious, chummy, querulous, snappish, fractious, twitchy, cagey, stroppy, phlegmatic, exasperated, petulant, disputatious, snippy, truculent, diffident, turgid, rumbustious, nervy, cranky, peevish, scatty, dour, pedantic, bemused, huffy, ropey, feisty, tempestuous, untidy, splenetic, pernickety, shirty, antagonistic, irritable, imperious, agitated, touchy, jocular, frostier, bizarrely, irascible, maladroit, awkward, grouchy, clubbable, politer, chippy, unamused, stilted, sniffy, excitable, crabby, sneery, cantankerous, dull, morose, pompous, quarrelsome, spiteful, sheepish, impertinent, acerbic, uneasy, chatty, chucklesome, pugnacious, rancorous, unedifying, argumentative, discomfited, caddish, confrontational, circumspect, uncommunicative, ebullient, ponderous, garrulous, schoolmasterly, irritating, placatory, sarky, angry, bossy, soporific, loquacious, brusque, uncomfortable, temperamental, winded, tiresome, curt, disobliging, amiable, shrill, slanging match, boastful, flirtatious, humored, spiritless, ungracious, affable, cheerful, crestfallen, dejected, disconsolate, distraught

tetchily

ill-natured, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, techy