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  • 121huffy — petulant, pettish, *irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, fretful, querulous Analogous words: *angry, mad, indignant, irate …

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  • 122peevish — irritable, fractious, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: captious, carping, caviling, faultfinding, *critical …

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  • 123petulant — irritable, fractious, peevish, pettish, snappish, waspish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: cross, cranky, touchy, testy (see IRASCIBLE): impatient, restive, fidgety …

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  • 124querulous — fretful, petulant, pettish, huffy, *irritable, peevish, fractious, snappish, waspish Analogous words: crying, weeping, wailing, whimpering, blubbering (see CRY vb): touchy, cranky, cross (see IRASCIBLE): lamenting, deploring, bemoaning (see… …

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  • 125snappish — *irritable, fractious, peevish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: testy, touchy, cranky, *irascible: surly, crabbed, morose (see SULLEN) …

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  • 126waspish — snappish, *irritable, fractious, peevish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: testy, touchy, cranky, cross, *irascible: *impatient: *contrary, perverse: spiteful, *malicious …

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  • 127discontent — adj 1. dissatisfied, discontented, disaffected, displeased; fretful, complaining, querulous, pettish, testy, petulant, cranky; chafed, annoyed, piqued, vexed, exasperated, angry. n 2. dissatisfaction, disquiet, inquietude, discontentment; envy,… …

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  • 128fractious — adj 1. peevish, irritable, testy, captious, snappish, quarrelsome, pettish, waspish, touchy; out of sorts, crabbed, grouchy, ill natured, ill humored, cross, splenetic; churlish, acrimonious, bitter, sour, caustic; petulant, sulky, sullen, morose …

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