cantankerous
— Adjective
– English
~ stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
cantankerous
— Adjective
– English
~ having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
cantankerously
— Adverb
– English
~ in a bad mood; "he answered her cantankerously"