truculent, obstinate, recalcitrant, petulant, belligerent, obnoxious, ornery, incorrigible, insolent, irascible, uncouth, excitable, bumptious, cranky, feckless, unruly, quarrelsome, obsequious, impertinent, peevish, disdainful, officious, bellicose, disobedient, oafish, rambunctious, schoolmarmish, contemptuous, voluble, pugnacious, loutish, garrulous, pompous, cantankerous, crabby, boorish, mulish, arrogant, impudent, verbose, impetuous, querulous, mouthy, bossy, priggish, haughty, distractible, disputatious, timid, timorous, mannerly, hyperactive, huffy, meddlesome, obedient, intransigent, unmannerly, blustering, prissy, whiny, combative, mischievous, doltish, unassertive, brusk, troglodytic, grumpy, rude, uppity, humorless, choleric, maladroit, unoffending, incommunicative, censorious, snippy, flighty, ungentlemanly, loquacious, decorous, reproachful, stroppy, intemperate, crotchety, irritable, acquiescent, snappish, agitated, argumentative, surly, docile, inarticulate, dimwitted, pedantic, wolfish, overbearing, rebarbative, egocentric, troublemaking, inexpressive, unmusical, irritating, reticent, uncooperative, demented, talkative, headstrong, shy, boisterous, handicapped, insubordinate, mannered, rowdy, deaf, extroverted

bolshy, stroppy, truculence, truculency

aggressive, defiant