Read the sentence.

The irritable old man who lives at the end of the street waved a baseball bat as he chased some skateboarders off his driveway.

Which words with similar meanings would have a more negative connotation than irritable in the sentence?

testy
ill-humored
belligerent
sulky
C?

4 answers

All of them mean basically irritable or bad-tempered except C. So I would agree.
Belligerent: hostile and agressive
ty
YW