Cantankerous

a.

1.

Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. - Thackeray.

Adj.	1.	cantankerous - stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator Synonyms: bloody-minded
	2.	cantankerous - having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers Synonyms: crotchety, ornery

bad-tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, froward, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, ill-tempered, irascible, liverish, mean, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stuffy, sulky, sullen, testy, tetchy, touchy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wrongheaded