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petulant
 
ADJECTIVE:Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. Informal : crabby, mean2. Idioms: out of sorts. See ATTITUDE.
 
 
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