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out-of-sorts
adjective as in peevish
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- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
adjective as in in a bad humor
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Example Sentences
Priscilla in her interest had forgotten all about being out-of-sorts.
I know I am sick, that I am irritable and out-of-sorts sometimes.
"A little out-of-sorts," she answered, dropping her eyes before his gaze.
Any one could see that she was rather out-of-sorts, excited and reckless and all that.
When Clint's final recitation of the day was over at three he was out-of-sorts and depressed.
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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to out-of-sorts, such as: acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, and carping.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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