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Antonyms for waspy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : wos-pee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒs pi |
Definition of waspy
- As in peevish : adj irritable, testy
- As in querulous : adj grouchy, hard to please
- As in crotchety : adj irritable, often due to old age
- Good quarters—well ribbed up—not like one of the waspy greyhounds they call thoroughbred horses now-a-days.
- Extract from : « Sporting Society, Vol. I (of 2) » by Various
- She had none of your Chinese feet, nor waspy, unhealthy waists, which those may admire who will.
- Extract from : « The Fitz-Boodle Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- At others they are vividly white; to a certain extent this banded condition recalls the waspy coloration.
- Extract from : « Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants » by Edward Saunders
- If mother and dad ever have to go to London for anything, then I might—that is, if Waspy isn't here.
- Extract from : « Hunter's Marjory » by Margaret Bruce Clarke
Synonyms for waspy
- acrimonious
- angry
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- censorious
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- contrary
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- cross-grained
- crotchety
- crusty
- crying
- curmudgeonly
- cussed
- deploring
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- eccentric
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumbling
- grumbly
- grumpy
- huffy
- huffy irascible
- ill-natured
- irritable
- lamenting
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- odd
- ogre
- ornery
- out of sorts peevish
- out-of-sorts
- peevish
- pertinacious
- petulant
- plaintive
- queer
- querulous
- scrappy
- short-tempered
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- tetchy
- thin-skinned touchy
- touchy
- ugly
- unusual
- uptight
- vinegary
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
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