out-of-sorts

Main Entry:	peevish [pee-vish] Show IPA/ˈpivɪʃ/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritable, testy
Synonyms:	acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, childish, churlish, complaining, crabbed, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, cussed, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, fretting, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, out-of-sorts, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy, touchy, ugly, waspish, waspy, whining
Antonyms:	accepting, friendly, happy, pleasant

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