waspishness
31petulance — n. Peevishness, fretfulness, testiness, waspishness, crustiness, pettishness, snappishness, irritability, ill temper …
32waspish — adjective bad tempered and cruel in the things that you say: waspish remarks waspishly adverb waspishness noun (U) …
33acrimony — noun the meeting ended with acrimony on both sides Syn: bitterness, anger, rancor, resentment, ill feeling, ill will, bad blood, animosity, hostility, enmity, antagonism, waspishness, spleen, malice, spite, spitefulness, peevishness, venom …
34asperity — *acrimony, acerbity Analogous words: sharpness, keenness (see corresponding adjectives at SHARP): causticity, mordancy (see corresponding adjectives at CAUSTIC): snappishness, waspishness, irritability (see corresponding adjectives at IRRITABLE)… …
35churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
36ill humor — n bad mood, temper, huff, tiff, miff, pet, fume, pique, Inf. stew, Archaic. pucker; rage, passion; touchiness, testiness, thin skinnedness, fret fulness, petulance; irritability, curtness, tartness, sharpness; ill temper, irascibility,… …
37ill temper — n irascibility, waspishness, peevishness, spleen, bile, choler; crossness, crabbedness, crabbiness, crankiness, grouchiness, grumpiness; moodiness, sulkiness, gloominess, sullenness, moroseness; bitterness, acerbity, asperity, sourness,… …
38impatience — n 1. nervousness, agitation, Inf. whim whams; anxiety, jitteriness, disquiet, restlessness, res tiveness; excitability, flutter, fluster, Sl. flap; impetuosity, eagerness, avidity, precipitateness; itchiness, itchy feet, Sl. ants in one s pants,… …
39irascibility — n testiness, touchiness, thin skinnedness, irritability, edginess, hastiness, short fuse; chol er, pepperiness, spleen, gall, bile, ill temper, bad temper, ill nature, ill humor; tartness, acerbity, asperity, acrimony, bitterness, harshness;… …
40irritability — n 1. testiness, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, prickliness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness. 2. grouchiness, crankiness, grumpiness, cantanker… …
