peevish English

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peevish

— adjective (= fractious, nettlesome) easily irritated or annoyed an incorrigibly fractious young man not the least nettlesome of his countrymen

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petulant

pettish

irritable

testy

fretful

morose

surly

discontented

cross

touchy

shrewish

querulous

ill-tempered

grouchy

fractious

cranky

cantankerous

tetchy

sullen

splenetic

scratchy

quarrelsome

huffy

complaining

wayward

waspish

vixenish

techy

sulky

snappish

quick-tempered

peckish

nettlesome

grumpy

disagreeable

crusty

cross-grained

crabby

crabbed

churlish

capricious

whimsical

wanton

untoward

unpleasant

unkind

trouble

termagant

sulk

stubborn