bearish (adj.)

• abrupt
• aggressive
• beastly
• bitchy
• bluff
• blunt
• brash
• brusque
• cantankerous
• cavalier
• churlish
• crabbed
• cranky
• cross
• cross-grained
• crotchety
• crusty
• curt
• cussed
• disagreeable
• excitable
• feisty
• fractious
• gruff
• harsh
• huffish
• huffy
• irascible
• irritable
• mean
• ornery
• perverse
• rough
• severe
• sharp
• short
• snappish
• spiteful
• splenetic
• surly
• testy
• truculent
• ugly
• vinegarish
• vinegary
• waspish