Words and phrases that have a meaning related to peevish: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
grumbly, snappish, whiny, cranky, crabby, grumpy, dyspeptic, petulant, smug, mirthless, smirky, shrill, disdainful, haughty, obnoxious, cantankerous, morose, grouchy, frowny, jejune, schoolmarmish, humorless, mulish, surly, sarcastic, sneery, reproachful, graceless, cloddish, condescending, supercilious, insufferable, puppyish, gleeful, sullen, crotchety, snide, goony, impertinent, querulous, curmudgeonly, oafish, churlish, pompous, weaselly, truculent, doltish, neurotic, huffy, choleric, unamusing, fretful, phlegmatic, mealymouthed, priggish, dopey, childish, quizzical, brusk, bumptious, mischievous, boorish, incommunicative, obstreperous, obtuse, snippy, nerdish, rebarbative, goofy, lugubrious, consternated, feckless, mousey, lumpish, pallid, solipsistic, flatulent, droll, snarky, sheepish, snarly, uncouth, splenetic, wimpy, sarky, ornery, foppish, blithe, scornful, inarticulate, clumsy, waspish, timorous, annoying, goatish, prissy, irritating, pedantic, snotty, unenlightening, larky, excitable, spiteful, pettish, natured, sulky, resentful, despondent, diffident, impatient, pitying, reticent, censorious, defiant, humoured
Appears in the definition of:
fractiously, peevishly, querulously
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Also try:fractious, ill-natured, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, techy, testy, tetchy
— Nouns for peevish: tone, voice, man, temper, child, boy, cry, humour, children, expression, disposition, more...
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