Definition of peevish

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Peevish (a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

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Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Squabble :: Squabble (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
Knappish :: Knappish (a.) Snappish; peevish.
Crossly :: Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Vaporish :: Vaporish (a.) Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.
Peevishness :: Peevishness (n.) The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
Splenetic :: Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
Snarl :: Snarl (n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
Wrawness :: Wrawness (n.) Peevishness; ill temper; anger.
Petulancy :: Petulancy (n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Crusty :: Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly..
Natter :: Natter (v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.
Techy :: Techy (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
Shrewish :: Shrewish (a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Teeny :: Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Peevishly :: Peevishly (adv.) In a peevish manner.
Protervity :: Protervity (n.) Peevishness; petulance.
Snappish :: Snappish (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
Sour :: Sour (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply..
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