- brusque: describing a rudely abrupt manner
- cantankerous: grumpy; disagreeable
- caustic: bitingly sarcastic or witty
- contemptuous: feeling hatred; scornful; despising
- feral: savage, fierce, or untamed
- fractious: quarrelsome; unruly
- harbinger: one that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
- impromptu: not planned in advance; spur of the moment
- incorrigible: unable to be reformed
- ingrate: an ungrateful person
- insolent: insulting in manner or speech; rude
- itinerant: traveling from place to place
- malevolent: having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; hateful; evil
- notorious: known widely and unfavorably; infamous
- obdurate: stubborn; inflexible; stubbornly persisting in wrongdoing
- ominous: menacing; threatening
- parsimonious: frugal to the point of stingness
- portend: to serve as an omen or a warning of
- prophetic: foretelling or predicting future events
- remote: located far away; secluded
- repugnant: causing disgust or hatred
- transitory: short-lived or temporary
- unfettered: free from restrictions or bonds
- unpalatable: not pleasing to the taste