waspishness
41petulance — 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 …
42spleen — n 1. petulance, peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carp ingness; irascibleness, irascibility, biliousness, cholericness; ill temperedness, bad temper,… …
43tartness — 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,… …
44testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …
45touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …
46waspish — UK [ˈwɒspɪʃ] / US [ˈwɑspɪʃ] adjective someone who is waspish often says cruel things in an angry way Derived words: waspishly adverb waspishness noun uncountable …
47waspish — /ˈwɒspɪʃ / (say wospish) adjective 1. like or suggesting a wasp. 2. quick to resent a trifling affront or injury; snappish. 3. showing irascibility or petulance: waspish writing. 4. having a slender waist, like a wasp. {wasp + ish1} –waspishly,… …
48WASPish — /ˈwɒspɪʃ/ (say wospish) adjective conservative in politics and morality, as typical of a WASP. {WASP + ish1} –WASPishly, adverb –WASPishness, noun …
49waspish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ sharply irritable. DERIVATIVES waspishly adverb waspishness noun …
50waspishly — waspish ► ADJECTIVE ▪ sharply irritable. DERIVATIVES waspishly adverb waspishness noun …
