Perverse
Perverse adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Usage example: how can you be so cheerful one day, and so perverse the next?
Short-tempered and perverse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short-tempered" instead an adjective "Perverse".
Short-tempered
Short-tempered adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Usage example: shop customers learned not to bother the short-tempered dog on their way out
Perverse and short-tempered are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Perverse" instead an adjective phrase "Short-tempered".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- capricious and perverse
- capricious and short-tempered
- irritable and perverse
- irritable and short-tempered
- cranky and perverse
- cranky and short-tempered
- fractious and perverse
- fractious and short-tempered
- choleric and perverse
- choleric and short-tempered
- cantankerous and perverse
- cantankerous and short-tempered
- cross and perverse
- cross and short-tempered
Both words in one sentence
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The team of Booker T and Goldust (also known as "BookDust") was this in spades throughout 2002 to 2003, with Booker as a brash, short-tempered, and cocky heel, and Goldust as a perverse, bizarre, and persuasive face.
Source: Odd Friendship
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