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81petulance — n 1. peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carpingness; irascibleness, irascibility, cholericness, ill temperedness, bad temper, spleen, spleenishness; crabbiness …
82resentment — n 1. indignation, offense, umbrage, pique, righteous anger, disgust; anger, ire, wrath, dudgeon, rancor, fury, rage, venomousness; displeasure, disapproval, disapprobation, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, unhappiness; irritation, annoyance,… …
83roughness — n 1. coarseness, ruggedness, bumpiness, jaggedness, cragginess, cragginess; stoniness, rockiness; knottedness, nodosity, gnarledness; wrin kledness, nugosity, crinkledness, corrugation; lumpiness; irregularity, unevenness. 2. hairiness,… …
84rudeness — n 1. discourteousness, impoliteness, incivility, unmannerliness; inconsideration, tactlessness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, misbehavior; ungraciousness, indecorum, uncourtliness, ungentlemanliness, hoydenism; brashness, boldness, brazenness,… …
85sullenness — n 1. crossness, angriness, anger; ill or bad temper, ill or bad humor, ill or bad mood, sulk, sulks. 2. sulkiness, moroseness, mumpishness, glumness, moodiness; resentfulness, bitterness, embitteredness; acrimoniousness, acerbity, choler, spleen …
86tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …
87temper — n 1. disposition, temperament, constitution, state or frame of mind, mood, spirits, humor; nature, condition, vein, tone, tenor, grain, type, character, spirit. 2. ill humor, petulance, peevishness, irritability, huf fishness, churlishness,… …
88touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …
89surly — /ˈsɜli / (say serlee) adjective (surlier, surliest) 1. churlishly rude or ill humoured, as a person or the manner, tone, expression, etc. 2. (of an animal) ill tempered and unfriendly. 3. Obsolete lordly; arrogant. {variant of obsolete sirly… …
90gremlin — grem·lin (grĕm’lĭn) n. 1) An imaginary gnomelike creature to whom mechanical problems, especially in aircraft, are attributed. 2) A maker of mischief. ╂ [Perhaps blend of Irish gruaimín, bad tempered little fellow (from Middle Irish gruaim, gloom …
