I have a co-worker who's so peevish and unpleasant that we call her Little Miss Sunshine behind her back.
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Peevish
//ˈpiːvɪʃ//
Synonyms for "peevish" (274 found)
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Adjective(31 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Adjective(78 words)
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Adverb(1 words)
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33 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- капризен adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- сърдит adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Dutch
1 entries- zeurderig adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Finnish
1 entries- mariseva adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
French
2 entries- geignard adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- maussade adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
German
4 entries- gereizt adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- mürrisch adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- quengelig adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- verdrießlich adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Hungarian
2 entries- durcás adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- nyűgös adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Irish
2 entries- aingí adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- cantalach adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Italian
2 entries- irritabile adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- scontroso adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Latin
1 entries- morosus adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Macedonian
1 entries- раздразлив adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Old English
1 entries- gnorn adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Polish
2 entries- rozdrażniony adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- zirytowany adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Russian
2 entries- ворчли́вый adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- сварли́вый adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- crosta adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- dranndanach adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- gearanach adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- gruamach adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Spanish
4 entries- alaraco adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- alharaquiento adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- malhumorado adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
- quejica adj (constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters)
Sample sentences
35 total sentences available.
Tom woke up feeling rather peevish.
Source: tatoeba (10797682)
Due to the long wait, there were several peevish patients in the doctor’s waiting room.
Source: wiktionary
[T]he nature of religion, […] showeth it consisteth […] not in a peevish crossness and obstinate repugnancy to received laws and customs, but in a quiet and peaceable submission to the express laws of God, and lawful commands of man; […]
Source: wiktionary
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