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- Thesaurus|1.3k
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91 entries under irritable topic. ×
| carping(adjective, mean, praise, severe, nasty) | |
| critical(adjective, praise, difficult, critical) | |
| peevish(adjective, mean, severe, difficult, delicate) | |
| cross(noun, adjective, mean, severe, difficult) | |
| petulant(adjective, difficult, cross, sensitive) | |
| testy(noun, adjective, mean, severe, difficult) | |
| cantankerous(adjective, mean, severe, difficult, delicate) | |
| querulous(adjective, mean, hard, difficult, delicate) | |
| touchy(adjective, mean, severe, short, sensitive) | |
| fault-finding(adjective, mean, severe, difficult, cross) | |
| bad-tempered(adjective, mean, difficult, delicate, cross) | |
| crabby(adjective, mean, severe, difficult) | |
| fretful(adjective, mean, tough, harsh, cross) | |
| perverse(adjective, tough, difficult, harsh) | |
| snappish(adjective, tough, difficult, harsh) | |
| splenetic(adjective, mean, tough, harsh, delicate) | |
| choleric(adjective, sharp, difficult, harsh, delicate) | |
| irascible(adjective, mean, evil, sharp, nasty) | |
| waspish(adjective, mean, difficult, cross, short) | |
| crabbed(adjective, mean, tough, delicate, cross) |
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