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All waspish synonyms

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adjective waspish

  • waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
  • irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
  • touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
  • irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
  • tetchy — irritable; touchy.
  • crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
  • crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
  • fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
  • huffy — easily offended; touchy.
  • ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
  • snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
  • spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
  • malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
  • malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
  • nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
  • vindictive — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
  • venomous — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
  • ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
  • surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
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