Peevish

a.	1.	Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. She is peevish, sullen, froward. - Shak.
	2.	Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
	3.	Silly; childish; trifling. To send such peevish tokens to a king. - Shak.

Adj.

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peevish - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" Synonyms: irritable, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy, nettlesome, peckish, cranky, fractious

Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, faultfinding, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpish, grumpy, howling, huffy, ill-humored, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, pettish, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, short-tempered, shrewish, sorrowful, splenetic, sulky, testy, tetchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny