Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate.

synoniem: bloody-minded.

Roget 901: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable etc. 825; thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret.    hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy^†, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]. querulous, captious, moodish^†; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious etc. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious^†; restiff etc. (perverse) 901.1^†; churlish etc. (discourteous) 895.    cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari=atre^†.    in a bad temper; sulky etc. 901.1; angry etc. 900.    resentful, resentive^†; vindictive etc. 919.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 901a: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy^†, torvous^†, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly etc. (discourteous) 895.    moody; spleenish^†, spleenly^†; splenetic, cankered.    cross, crossgrained^†; perverse, wayward, humorsome^†; restiff^†, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious^†, sinistrous^†, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U.S.].    dogged etc. (stubborn) 606.    grumpy, glum, grim, grum^†, morose, frumpish; in the sulks etc. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.    peevish etc. (irascible) 901.    ... meer laten zien

Having a difficult and contrary disposition:
— A cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady.

synoniemen: crotchety, ornery.