pettishness

  • 21petulance — Synonyms and related words: Faustianism, arbitrariness, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, caprice, capriciousness, cold comfort, complaining, complaint, crankiness, crotchetiness, destructive criticism, disappointment,… …

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  • 22pettish — adjective petulant. Derivatives pettishly adverb pettishness noun …

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  • 23fretfulness — n. Peevishness, petulance, touchiness, testiness, snappishness, waspishness, pettishness, spleen, captiousness, irritability, ill humor, ill temper …

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  • 24petulance — n. Peevishness, fretfulness, testiness, waspishness, crustiness, pettishness, snappishness, irritability, ill temper …

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  • 25touchiness — n. Peevishness, snappishness, testiness, irritability, irascibility, petulance, fretfulness, spleen, pettishness …

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  • 26pettish — adjective petulant pettishly adverb pettishness noun (U) …

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  • 27petulance — n 1. peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carpingness; irascibleness, irascibility, cholericness, ill temperedness, bad temper, spleen, spleenishness; crabbiness …

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  • 28spleen — n 1. petulance, peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carp ingness; irascibleness, irascibility, biliousness, cholericness; ill temperedness, bad temper,… …

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  • 29pettish — UK [ˈpetɪʃ] / US adjective easily annoyed by unimportant things Derived words: pettishly adverb pettishness noun uncountable …

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  • 30pettish — /ˈpɛtɪʃ/ (say petish) adjective peevish; petulant: a pettish refusal. {pet1 + ish1, originally, like a spoiled child} –pettishly, adverb –pettishness, noun …