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waspy
adjective as in crotchety
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- 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
- whining
adjective as in querulous
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
adjective as in preppy
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Example Sentences
He fears showing the WASPy Allison the side of him changed by Kalaj, and, similarly, fears judgment by Kalaj.
“Initially the role was this Beverly Hills WASPy type, but [creator Doug Ellin] wanted whatever essence I had,” said Chriqui.
But in Massachusetts, they're worried a WASPy wonk running for governor could score another GOP upset.
It has been, for Dobbs, a Kafka-like metamorphosis from WASPy establishmentarian to angry-populist cockroach.
There is that Waspy, American male, keeping-it-all-under-wraps sort of thing that corners both characters.
She had none of your Chinese feet, nor waspy, unhealthy waists, which those may admire who will.
If mother and dad ever have to go to London for anything, then I might—that is, if Waspy isn't here.
At others they are vividly white; to a certain extent this banded condition recalls the waspy coloration.
Good quarters—well ribbed up—not like one of the waspy greyhounds they call thoroughbred horses now-a-days.
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On this page you'll find 133 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to waspy, such as: cantankerous, crusty, grouchy, grumpy, ornery, and awkward.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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