| grousing(critical, dissatisfied, disparaging, complaining, nit-picking) |
| grumbling(critical, dissatisfied, disparaging, complaining, caviling) |
| ill-humored(nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| irritable(severe, cross, contrary) |
| jivey(nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| kvetching(critical, dissatisfied, disparaging, complaining, nit-picking) |
| moaning(critical, dissatisfied, disparaging, complaining, caviling) |
| moralistic(nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| nitpicking(adjective, critical, dissatisfied, unfavorable, disapproving) |
| obloquious |
| out-of-sorts(nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| out of humor(expression, idiom, nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| pedantic(adjective, censorious) |
| peevish(severe, cross, contrary, nit-picking, pharisaical) |
| pernickety orpersnickety |
| persnickety |
| perverse(severe, cross, contrary) |
| pettish(nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) |
| petulant(severe, cross, contrary, nit-picking, pharisaical) |
| pharisaic(nit-picking, pharisaical) |