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What is the adjective for peevishness?

What's the adjective for peevishness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb peeve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

peevish
  1. Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. angry, cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, irritable, sulky, testy, critical, fiery, fractious, fretful, grouchy, petulant, ratty, surly, touchy, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, huffy, impatient, moody, prickly, querulous, snappy, sullen, whingy, bilious, bitter, chippy, crabbed, disagreeable, dyspeptic, narky, obstinate, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pettish, shrewish, snappish, sour, splenetic, acrimonious, captious, churlish, crotchety, crusty, curmudgeonly … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As the authors have produced such a splendid book, it seems peevish to point out any deficiencies.”
      “Marshall, on the other hand, always sounded peevish, arrogant and condescending.”
      “As for his peevish, snide remarks about the press, he may think them, but he really has to keep them to himself.”
peeved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of peeve
  2. Synonyms:
      3. annoyed, irritated, irked, vexed, vext, exasperated, riled, aggravated, galled, nettled, bugged, provoked, piqued, bothered, angered, ruffled, narked, needled, miffed, displeased, upset, got, gat, gotten, chafed, grated, disturbed, rankled, rasped, spited, rode, rid, ridden, persecuted, agitated, ate, eaten, gravelled, graveled, frosted, griped, grope, gripen, itched, goaded, exacerbated, roiled, disgruntled, humped, baited … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After waiting for hours in line, the peeved customers grew increasingly frustrated with the slow service at the restaurant.”
peeving
  1. present participle of peeve
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, annoying, irritating, exasperating, angering, irking, vexing, inflaming, putting out, nettling, needling, provoking, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rubbing up the wrong way, aggravating, miffing, riling, getting to, hacking off, giving someone the hump, driving mad, driving crazy, driving nuts, making someone see red, winding up, agitating, bothering, bugging, narking, getting across, teeing off, perturbing, ticking off, displeasing, eating, grating, ruffling, burning up, chafing, disturbing, frustrating, enraging, galling, firing up, upsetting, getting in someone's hair, getting on someone's nerves, getting on someone's tits … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some habits are annoying to this author, but it might be okay with you, and you might even be the perpetrator of the peeving behavior.”
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