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Easily irritated or annoyed.
irritable
petulant
cranky
peevish
scratchy
testy
tetchy
pettish
peckish
techy
ill-natured
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.
refractory
recalcitrant
disobedient
irritable
petulant
cranky
peevish
scratchy
1
The point is, that on this particular day the lieutenant was
irritable
.
2
Nivea's balm will soothe
irritable
skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
3
But I was in a state of mind bordering on the
irritable
.
4
In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was
irritable
and unjust.
5
Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly
irritable
.
1
Emphasising the feel good factor in Julian's
petulant
possessiveness is surely misguided.
2
Yvonne felt
petulant
toward these people she had liked only minutes before.
3
Lem knew he sounded
petulant
,
but he also knew he was right.
4
Corona was silent; it was her only weapon when he became
petulant
.
5
No longer
petulant
or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency.
1
His methods, once dismissed as
cranky
and left-field are now accepted practice.
2
Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me
cranky
.
3
She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her
cranky
.
4
He's
cranky
as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5
I was
cranky
thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1
So were the lieutenant and the
peevish
damsels in his Battleston car.
2
I am growing
peevish
-
and
tired
;
and will leave off writing for to-day.
3
We sat in the smoking-car, Hawkins by this time ill and
peevish
.
4
He that refused a pipe in company was accounted
peevish
and unsociable.
5
Walking towards the door, Alfred poured forth a torrent of
peevish
abuse:
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports,
scratchy
CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little
scratchy
blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and
scratchy
,
the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really
scratchy
.
5
But a hot,
scratchy
rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1
The General began to turn a little
testy
as the constable finished.
2
She wasn't quite sure why she had been so
testy
with him.
3
Mr. Merrick left the office in a rather humbled and
testy
mood.
4
The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more
testy
.
5
There was real feeling in the
testy
old lady's face and voice.
1
It has been an inevitably
tetchy
beginning to the new Dáil term.
2
On the Monday night he was a bit
tetchy
,
a bit tired.
3
The
tetchy
Brit thawed out after a couple of bottles of wine.
4
A few
tetchy
exchanges between US and Colombian players in the aftermath.
5
Richard Eyre, a nice guy, confined himself to the odd
tetchy
postcard.
1
Consider the
pettish
,
they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
2
He turned on Sam with the
pettish
anger of the mild man.
3
Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a
pettish
push.
4
He was a bit
pettish
when he snapped his check book shut.
5
And he added with
pettish
emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
1
There's also a Continental food and craft market if you get
peckish
.
2
A
peckish
Saturn fresh run out of young, the town devours itself.
3
A fear rises up within him: he is starting to feel
peckish
.
4
Having survived your morning bath, you may be feeling a little
peckish
.
5
And with someone who closed their eyes and someone who was
peckish
.
1
You are the third
techy
audience that I have given this to.
2
BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and loopy,
techy
pop music is far from basic.
3
Climb thin cracks and a
techy
face, with stunning views of Mt.
4
So it's just a
techy
way of lighting the menu of our game.
5
Among the
techy
outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.
1
Drummer had started crying, a
nettlesome
sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2
The most
nettlesome
issues for industry are security and accounting.
3
The timing involved in selling it, though, can be
nettlesome
.
4
A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations
nettlesome
.
5
This leads us to the
nettlesome
subject of authenticity.
Fractious.
hard
difficult
1
Such talk usually generates
fractious
debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the
fractious
post-civil war days.
3
The public mood is now more
fractious
and hostile to established politics.
4
The
fractious
atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5
The incident adds another complication to
fractious
ties between the two countries.
6
Ethiopia is withdrawing troops because of its frustrations with Somalia's
fractious
politics.
7
He muttered an oath as he fought to calm the
fractious
animal.
8
In the process, they opened a fascinating window into their
fractious
world.
9
The Squire had been like a
fractious
child over the compulsory rations.
10
It already seems like that
fractious
atmosphere will be present once more.
11
Males with blue throats are smaller, less
fractious
,
and hold smaller territories.
12
The baby, suffering from unavoidable neglect, developed the
fractious
temper of semi-illness.
13
His intellect, his spirituality and prayerfulness have held a
fractious
communion together.
14
They are not thrust into the beyond by their own
fractious
bodies.
15
Everyone wants a baby, not a cranky toddler or a
fractious
six-year-old.
16
They think it makes them
fractious
,
and not so easy to manage.
fractious
fractious relationship
very fractious
more fractious
fractious politics
increasingly fractious