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Thesaurus: peevish

Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

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  1. a. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
  2. a. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
  3. a. Silly; childish; trifling.
  4. adj. easily irritated or annoyed
  5. j:100 s easily irritated or annoyed