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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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UGLY
Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

GRUM

RUDE
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

GRIM
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

DARK
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

CURT
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

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SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

NASTY
Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

SHARP
Quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"

MOPEY

HARSH
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

CROSS
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

BRASH
Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

BLACK
(board games) the darker pieces

BLUNT
Used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt instrument"

BLUFF
The act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards

GRUFF
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

TESTY
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

SULKY
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse

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SURELY
Definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"

ABRUPT
Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

SNIPPY

TOUCHY
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

SEVERE
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

MOPING

MOPISH

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

GRUPMY

CRANKY
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

ABURPT

CRABBY
Annoyed and irritable

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

CRUSTY
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

ORNERY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

GRUMPY

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CRABBED
Annoyed and irritable

UNCIVIL
Lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather

WASPISH
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

DUMPISH

MOODISH

PEEVISH
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

MUMPISH

GROUCHY
Annoyed and irritable

BRUSQUE
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

BEARISH
Expecting prices to fall

BEASTLY
In a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"

BOORISH
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

BILIOUS
Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

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SNAPPISH
Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

SCOWLING
Sullen or unfriendly in appearance

PERVERSE
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

LOWERING
The act of causing something to move to a lower level

FROWNING
Showing displeasure or anger

DEJECTED
Affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

CHOLERIC
Characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"

CAVALIER
A gallant or courtly gentleman

CHURLISH
Having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

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TRUCULENT
Defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

IRASCIBLE
Characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"

UNFEELING
Devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

SPLENETIC
Of or relating to the spleen

SATURNINE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

OBNOXIOUS
Causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

IRRITABLE
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

GLOWERING
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

FRACTIOUS
Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

DYSPEPTIC
Suffering from dyspepsia

CROTCHETY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

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UNPLEASANT
Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"

UNGRACIOUS
Lacking social graces

UNFRIENDLY
Not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly"

UBIQUITOUS
Being present everywhere at once

MELANCHOLY
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

ILLNATURED

ILLHUMORED

AGGRESSIVE
Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"

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QUARRELSOME
Given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"

ILLTEMPERED

ILLMANNERED

BLACKBROWED

BADTEMPERED

ILLHUMOURED

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OBSTREPEROUS
Boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"

DISCOURTEOUS
Showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"

CANTANKEROUS
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

BEETLEBROWED

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TEMPERAMENTAL
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

SHORTTEMPERED

ARGUMENTATIVE
Given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child"