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peevish

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

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easily annoyed irritated answer childish complain discontent dissatisfaction expressing fretful fretfulness fretted habitually hard petulant please querulous silly trifling unjustifiable vexed

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