Vixenish

  • 51nagging — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captious, captiousness, carping, catty, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chronic, coaxing …

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  • 52peevish — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky,… …

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  • 53petulant — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, arbitrary, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, capricious, captious, catty, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross,… …

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  • 54querulous — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, annoyed, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning, bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, criticizing,… …

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  • 55resentful — Synonyms and related words: acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, aggravated, agitated, angry, annoyed, antagonistic, beefing, begrudging, bellyaching, bitching, bitter, bothered, browned off, bugged, burning …

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  • 56shrewish — Synonyms and related words: aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering, breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful, incorrigible, indocile,… …

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  • 57womanish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. effeminate, emasculated; unmanly; shrill, vixenish; soft, weak. See female. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. womanly, effeminate, female; see feminine 2 , weak 1 . See Synonym Study at female . III… …

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  • 58feminine — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Belonging to the feminine sex] Syn. female, distaff, pistillate; see female 2 . 2. [Having qualities stereotypically associated with women] Syn. soft, womanly, delicate, gentle, ladylike, female, matronly, maidenly,… …

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  • 59vixenishly — adv. in a vixenish manner …

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  • 60vixen — noun 1》 a female fox. 2》 a spirited or quarrelsome woman. Derivatives vixenish adjective Origin ME fixen, perh. from OE fyxen of a fox …

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