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définitions

waspish (adj.)

1.having a difficult and contrary disposition"a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady" - Dorothy Sayers

2.very irritable"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press" "he became prickly and spiteful" "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

 

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waspish (adj.)

↘ crab, crosspatch, curmudgeon, moper

 

synonymes

waspish (adj.)

bristly, cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, excitable, fiery, fretful, grumpy, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, petulant, prickly, sharp, snappish, splenetic, sulky, surly, testy

 

dictionnaire analogique

méchant (fr)[Classe]

triste (fr)[Classe]

prompt à se mettre en colère (fr)[Classe]

good-hearted, good-humored, good-humoured, good-natured, good-tempered, in a good humour, in a good mood, in a good temper, kind-hearted[Ant.]

nature[Dérivé]

peevish[Classe]

ill-natured, ill-tempered / ill-natured[Similaire]

waspish (adj.)


racine ILC (fr)[Domaine]

racine SUMO (fr)[Domaine]

good-hearted, good-humored, good-humoured, good-natured, good-tempered, in a good humour, in a good mood, in a good temper, kind-hearted[Ant.]

nature[Dérivé]

factotum[Domaine]

SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute[Domaine]

ill-natured, ill-tempered / ill-natured[Similaire]

waspish (adj.)


 

Merriam-Webster (1913)

WaspishWasp"ish (?), a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall.

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.

Syn. -- Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious.

-- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.

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