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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “PEEVISHNESS”

PEEVISHNESS n.
The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
CRABBED a.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.
CROSS a.
Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.
CROSSNESS n.
The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
CURSTNESS n.
Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.
INCOMPLIANCE n.
uality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson.
PET n.
A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. "In a pet she started up." Tennyson.
PETULANCE; PETULANCY n.
The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.
PROTERVITY n.
Peevishness; petulance. [Obs.] Fuller.
TIFF n.
A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.
TOUCHINESS n.
The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
WRANGLER n.
An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts.
WRAWNESS n.
Peevishness; ill temper; anger. [Obs.] Chaucer.