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Easily irritated or annoyed.
irritable
petulant
cranky
peevish
scratchy
testy
tetchy
pettish
peckish
techy
ill-natured
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.
refractory
recalcitrant
disobedient
Synonyms
Examples for "
refractory
"
refractory
recalcitrant
Examples for "
refractory
"
1
Nevertheless, EBD was still the treatment option for
refractory
cases of stenosis.
2
Background: The use of rituximab for
refractory
autoimmune blistering diseases is increasing.
3
However, treatment options for advanced
hormone
-
refractory
prostate cancers are still relatively inefficient.
4
Cingulotomy remains a viable treatment option for patients with severe
treatment
-
refractory
OCD.
5
Conclusion: SLE patients with delayed treatment and
refractory
disease have poorer prognosis.
1
Only once had he taken any direct action against a
recalcitrant
government.
2
He says he was forced to accept the amendment by
recalcitrant
lawmakers.
3
But the mere threat of resignation brought the most
recalcitrant
to reason.
4
If Professor Bew were describing
recalcitrant
loyalism he would have it right.
5
He asked me to sup with him and admire the fair
recalcitrant
.
Fractious.
hard
difficult
1
Such talk usually generates
fractious
debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the
fractious
post-civil war days.
3
The public mood is now more
fractious
and hostile to established politics.
4
The
fractious
atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5
The incident adds another complication to
fractious
ties between the two countries.
6
Ethiopia is withdrawing troops because of its frustrations with Somalia's
fractious
politics.
7
He muttered an oath as he fought to calm the
fractious
animal.
8
In the process, they opened a fascinating window into their
fractious
world.
9
The Squire had been like a
fractious
child over the compulsory rations.
10
It already seems like that
fractious
atmosphere will be present once more.
11
Males with blue throats are smaller, less
fractious
,
and hold smaller territories.
12
The baby, suffering from unavoidable neglect, developed the
fractious
temper of semi-illness.
13
His intellect, his spirituality and prayerfulness have held a
fractious
communion together.
14
They are not thrust into the beyond by their own
fractious
bodies.
15
Everyone wants a baby, not a cranky toddler or a
fractious
six-year-old.
16
They think it makes them
fractious
,
and not so easy to manage.
fractious
fractious relationship
very fractious
more fractious
fractious politics
increasingly fractious