prickish

comparative more prickish · superlative most prickish

1. informalvulgarhaving the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying.

   The lost cause of psychoanalysis, so infused with a non-intellectual bias, dominated by partisan interests, and characterized by a stunning degree of ill-will and prickish behaviour, has finally made way for a new cause – actually an old one – that of rigorous, informed scholarship.

   2005, Todd Dufresne, Killing Freud, A&C Black, page 162