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  • 91crusty — a. Touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, snappish, peevish, fretful, petulant, churlish, crabbed, froward, surly, morose, cynical, snarling, ill tempered. See cross …

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  • 92cynical — a. 1. Carping, censorious, satirical, sarcastic, captious, snarling, snappish, waspish, pettish, petulant, fretful, peevish, touchy, testy, crusty, churlish, crabbed, cross, morose, surly, ill tempered, ill natured. 2. Contemptuous, derisive,… …

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  • 93fractious — a. Cross, captious, petulant, touchy, testy, peevish, fretful, splenetic, pettish, snappish, waspish, irritable …

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  • 94fretful — a. Peevish, petulant, touchy, testy, snappish, waspish, pettish, splenetic, spleeny, captious, irritable, ill humored, ill tempered …

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  • 95hasty — a. 1. Quick, swift, rapid, fleet, speedy, fast, brisk. 2. Cursory, slight, hurried, rapid, superficial. 3. Rash, precipitate, headlong, reckless, thoughtless, indiscreet. 4. Passionate, irritable, touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, petulant,… …

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  • 96huffish — a.; (also huffy) 1. Angry, petulant, pettish, irritable. 2. Blustering, arrogant, insolent, hectoring …

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  • 97irritable — a. 1. Irascible, fretful, testy, touchy, peevish, pettish, waspish, snappish, choleric, splenetic, captious, petulant, excitable, hot, hasty, peppery, passionate, fiery. 2. Susceptible (to the influence of a stimulus). 3. Excitable, highly… …

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  • 98moody — a. 1. Humorsome, capricious, variable. 2. Angry, petulant, irritable, irascible, passionate, snappish, pettish, sour, crusty, crabbed, waspish, captious, snarling, peevish, testy, fretful, ill tempered, out of humor, out of temper. 3. Sullen,… …

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  • 99peevish — a. 1. Fretful, petulant, querulous, irritable, waspish, snappish, pettish, captious, cross, crusty, snarling, testy, churlish, crabbed, acrimonious, spleeny, ill natured, ill tempered. 2. Discontented, fretful, captious. 3. Self willed, stubborn …

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  • 100petulant — a. 1. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, hasty, touchy, testy, crusty, pettish, waspish, choleric, snappish, snarling, cross, crabbed, captious, censorious, acrimonious, perverse, froward, ill tempered, out of sorts, cavilling, ill humored.… …

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