Vixenish

  • 61shrewd — a. 1. Evil, iniquitous, bad. 2. Vixenish, scolding, shrewish. 3. Vexatious, annoying, troublesome, painful, mischievous, malicious. 4. Artful, cunning, sly, wily, subtle, crafty, arch, astute, Machiavelian. 5. Sagacious, acute, sharp, quick,… …

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  • 62shrewish — a. Froward, peevish, petulant, scolding, brawling, clamorous, vixenish …

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  • 63vixen — noun (C) 1 a female fox 1 (1) 2 old fashioned a bad­tempered woman vixenish adjective …

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  • 64choleric — adj irascible, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused; testy, crusty, fractious, touchy, thin skinned, edgy, on edge, Sl. uptight, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, atrabilious, cranky, ill humored, ill tempered, Australian …

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  • 65irritable — adj 1. testy, touchy, snappish, petulant, irascible, prickly; excitable, fiery, inflammable, hasty, quick, trigger happy; high strung, hot tempered, hot blooded, thin skinned, quick tempered; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful;… …

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  • 66peppery — adj 1. hot, burning, Sl. burny, spicy; racy, nippy, keen, sharp, pungent, highly seasoned, piquant, stimulating. 2.(all of speech) sharp, stinging, sarcastic, biting, incisive, cutting; piercing, acid, astringent, caustic, acrimonious, acerbic;… …

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  • 67quarrelsome — adj 1. argumentative, inharmonious, contentious, combative, wranglesome; dissident, dissentient, dissentious; exceptive, controversial, litigious, disputatious, hostile, unpacific, pugnacious, combative; discordant, bellicose, battlesome,… …

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  • 68shrewish — adj ill humored, cranky, grumbling, petulant, peevish, whining, grouchy; continually complaining, full of complaints, nitpicking; castigating, vituperating, rebuking, nagging, scolding, chiding, fault finding; quarrelsome, contentious, vixenish;… …

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  • 69testy — adj touchy, irritable, tetchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, snarling, crotchety, churlish, bearish; gruff, cantankerous, impatient, crabby;… …

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  • 70touchy — adj 1. testy, irritable, tetchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, snarling, crotchety, churlish, bearish; gruff, cantankerous, impatient, crabby;… …

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