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  • 121querulous — 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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  • 122quibbling — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, critical, criticism, cynical,… …

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  • 123reproachful — Synonyms and related words: abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving, disparaging, execrating, execrative …

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  • 124censorious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. critical, faultfinding, condemnatory. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. carping, faultfinding, complaining; see critical 2 , severe 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inclined to …

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  • 125disapprobation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condemnation Nouns 1. disapprobation, disapproval; dislike. 2. (lack of approval) discommendation, demerit; blame, detraction, condemnation. 3. (criticism) animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection …

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  • 126discontent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Want of satisfaction Nouns 1. discontent, discontentment, displeasure; dissatisfaction, resentment; inquietude, vexation, soreness, heartburning (see dejection); querulousness (see lamentation);… …

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  • 127fastidious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. finicky, [over]nice, fussy, crotchety. See taste. Ant., gross, tasteless. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. squeamish, overnice, meticulous; see careful , particular 3 , squeamish . See Synonym Study at… …

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  • 128irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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