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peevish
adjective as in irritable, testy
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
- waspy
- whining
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Example Sentences
“He looks startled,” Reed said of the president’s peevish performance.
From Los Angeles Times
Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.
From Salon
Placing his Howard in a pen with Short's jumpy, cheerfully peevish Oliver is perfect.
From Salon
“He was all peevish that you always take the car because of your, what did he say? Oh yeah, selfish nature.”
From Literature
Declaration’s note back to me was prickly, bordering on peevish.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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