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  • 41Fretfulness — Fretful Fret ful, a. [See 2d {Fret}.] Disposed to fret; ill humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. {Fret ful*ly}, adv. {Fret ful*ness}, n. Syn: Peevish; ill humored; ill natured; irritable; waspish; captious;… …

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  • 42Coq Roq — Agency: Crispin, Porter + Bogusky Client: Burger King Product(s): BK Chicken Fries Year: 2004 2005 Coq Roq, also typeset as COQ ROQ, and pronounced Cock Rock , was an advertising program created in late 2004 to p …

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  • 43fretful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. restless; peevish, pettish. See agitation, discontent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, petulant, cross, captious; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. discontented, irritable,… …

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  • 44irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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  • 45irritable — irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous apply to persons or to their moods or dispositions in the sense of showing impatience or anger without due or sufficient cause. Irritable implies… …

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  • 46cross — crossable, adj. crossability, n. /kraws, kros/, n., v., adj., crosser, crossest. n. 1. a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to death. 2. any object, figure, or mark… …

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  • 47crabbed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crabby, ill tempered, irascible, surly, growly, cross, peevish; cramped, illegible, squeezed. See irascibility, unintelligibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sour tempered] Syn. grouchy, peevish,… …

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  • 48petulant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, irritable, complaining, peevish. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. grouchy, testy, cross; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PECH uh lunt]… …

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  • 49querulous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. whining, complaining, fretful, petulant, peevish. See lamentation, discontent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fretful, irascible, peevish, complaining; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …

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  • 50sullen — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky; ill tempered, ill humored; out of sorts, temper, or humor; crusty, crabbed; sour, surly, discourteous; moody; spleenish, splenetic; resentful; cross[ grained]; perverse, wayward, forward;… …

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