spleeny

  • 11Fretfully — Fretful Fret ful, a. [See 2d {Fret}.] Disposed to fret; ill humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. {Fret ful*ly}, adv. {Fret ful*ness}, n. Syn: Peevish; ill humored; ill natured; irritable; waspish; captious;… …

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  • 12Fretfulness — Fretful Fret ful, a. [See 2d {Fret}.] Disposed to fret; ill humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. {Fret ful*ly}, adv. {Fret ful*ness}, n. Syn: Peevish; ill humored; ill natured; irritable; waspish; captious;… …

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  • 13Spleenish — Spleen ish, a. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. {Spleen ish*ly}, adv. {Spleen ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 14Spleenishly — Spleenish Spleen ish, a. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. {Spleen ish*ly}, adv. {Spleen ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 15Spleenishness — Spleenish Spleen ish, a. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. {Spleen ish*ly}, adv. {Spleen ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 16fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …

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  • 17perverse — I adjective bad, bad natured, bad tempered, base, bellicose, belligerent, boorish, bumptious, cantankerous, captious, churlish, contemptible, contrary, contumacious, contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, debauched,… …

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  • 18bearish — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, aggressive, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty,… …

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  • 19bitchy — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, baleful, bearish, belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, cankered, cantankerous, catty, censorious, churlish, contemptuous, contumelious, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, cussed,… …

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  • 20cantankerous — Synonyms and related words: bad tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty,… …

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