| No. | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | accusatory | Blaming; charging wrongdoing. |
| 2. | acerbic | Bitingly harsh or sarcastic. |
| 3. | admonishing | Scolding; warning sternly. |
| 4. | adversarial | Hostile; opposing aggressively. |
| 5. | barbed | Pointedly hurtful; cutting. |
| 6. | belligerent | Aggressively hostile; combative. |
| 7. | bitter | Resentful; harshly critical. |
| 8. | blustering | Noisily aggressive; bullying. |
| 9. | caustic | Severely critical; corrosive. |
| 10. | censorious | Harshly judgmental; disapproving. |
| 11. | churlish | Rude; surly; ill-mannered. |
| 12. | contemptuous | Showing scorn; disdainful. |
| 13. | damning | Strongly condemning; ruinous. |
| 14. | deprecatory | Expressing belittling disapproval. |
| 15. | derisive | Mocking; ridiculing. |
| 16. | disparaging | Demeaning; speaking slightingly. |
| 17. | egotistical | Self-centered; boastfully proud. |
| 18. | embittered | Made resentful by grievance. |
| 19. | enraged | Filled with intense anger. |
| 20. | execrable | Utterly detestable; very bad. |
| 21. | facetious | Inappropriately flippant; not serious. |
| 22. | fatuous | Silly, smug, and pointless. |
| 23. | fearmongering | Spreading alarm to manipulate. |
| 24. | fractious | Irritable; quarrelsome; unruly. |
| 25. | galling | Annoyingly humiliating; vexing. |
| 26. | garrulous | Excessively talkative; rambling. |
| 27. | glib | Smooth but insincere; shallow. |
| 28. | gratuitous | Unjustified; unnecessary; unearned. |
| 29. | haughty | Arrogantly superior; disdainful. |
| 30. | hectoring | Bullyingly aggressive; domineering. |
| 31. | hostile | Unfriendly; antagonistic; aggressive. |
| 32. | hypercritical | Excessively fault-finding. |
| 33. | ill-tempered | Easily angered; bad-natured. |
| 34. | impatient | Irritable at delays; intolerant. |
| 35. | imperious | Overbearing; commanding; arrogant. |
| 36. | invidious | Likely to provoke resentment. |
| 37. | jaded | Worn out; cynical; bored. |
| 38. | jeering | Mocking with taunts. |
| 39. | jingoistic | Aggressively nationalistic; bellicose. |
| 40. | judgmental | Quick to condemn; moralizing. |
| 41. | kibitzing | Meddling with unwanted advice. |
| 42. | killjoy | Spoiling fun with negativity. |
| 43. | knavish | Dishonest; roguish; untrustworthy. |
| 44. | knotty | Needlessly complex; obstructive. |
| 45. | lacerating | Deeply wounding; scathing. |
| 46. | loutish | Crude; boorish; insensitive. |
| 47. | lugubrious | Mournful; gloomy; joyless. |
| 48. | lurid | Sensational; shocking; tawdry. |
| 49. | mawkish | Sickly sentimental; cloying. |
| 50. | mean-spirited | Malicious; petty; unkind. |
| 51. | misanthropic | Hating or distrusting people. |
| 52. | mordant | Bitterly witty; cutting. |
| 53. | narcissistic | Excessively self-admiring; vain. |
| 54. | nasty | Unpleasantly harsh or malicious. |
| 55. | neurotic | Anxious; obsessively worried. |
| 56. | nihilistic | Rejecting meaning; bleakly negative. |
| 57. | obdurate | Stubbornly unyielding; hard. |
| 58. | obnoxious | Offensively unpleasant; annoying. |
| 59. | opprobrious | Disgraceful; expressively abusive. |
| 60. | overwrought | Excessively agitated; strained. |
| 61. | peevish | Childishly irritable; cranky. |
| 62. | petulant | Sulky; rude when annoyed. |
| 63. | polemical | Aggressively argumentative; combative. |
| 64. | pompous | Self-important; grandiose. |
| 65. | quarrelsome | Prone to arguing; combative. |
| 66. | querulous | Complaining in a whiny way. |
| 67. | quibbling | Petty arguing over details. |
| 68. | quizzical | Skeptically amused; doubtful. |
| 69. | rancorous | Bitterly resentful; hateful. |
| 70. | raving | Wildly irrational; frenzied. |
| 71. | repellent | Off-putting; causing disgust. |
| 72. | reproachful | Expressing blame or disappointment. |
| 73. | sanctimonious | Hypocritically moral; self-righteous. |
| 74. | sarcastic | Using irony to mock or wound. |
| 75. | scabrous | Indecent; offensively coarse. |
| 76. | scornful | Contemptuously dismissive. |
| 77. | tendentious | Biased; promoting a cause. |
| 78. | testy | Easily annoyed; touchy. |
| 79. | trenchant | Sharply effective; biting. |
| 80. | truculent | Eager to fight; hostile. |
| 81. | uncharitable | Harshly judging; lacking kindness. |
| 82. | unctuous | Oily, insincere flattery. |
| 83. | unforgiving | Relentlessly critical; merciless. |
| 84. | unhinged | Mentally unstable; irrational. |
| 85. | vacuous | Empty of thought; inane. |
| 86. | venomous | Maliciously spiteful; poisonous. |
| 87. | vindictive | Seeking revenge; spiteful. |
| 88. | vitriolic | Bitterly harsh; caustic. |
| 89. | whiny | Complaining in an annoying way. |
| 90. | willfully obtuse | Deliberately refusing to understand. |
| 91. | wizened | Shriveled; bleakly worn. |
| 92. | wretched | Miserable; contemptibly bad. |
| 93. | xenophobic | Hostile toward foreigners. |
| 94. | xerotic | Dry; arid; lacking warmth. |
| 95. | xylophagous | Wood-eating; oddly repugnant. |
| 96. | xystus-bound | Stilted; overly formal and cold. |
| 97. | yammering | Noisily complaining at length. |
| 98. | yapping | Shrill, incessant talk; nagging. |
| 99. | yokelish | Crude; unsophisticated; boorish. |
| 100. | yowling | Loud, unpleasant, complaining cries. |
