peevish (adj.)
- acrimonious
- bad-tempered
- bilious
- cantankerous
- captious
- catty
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- disappointed
- discontented
- disgruntled
- displeased
- dissatisfied
- envious
- faultfinding
- fractious
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumbling
- grumpy
- howling
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- ill-tempered
- irritable
- malcontent
- mournful
- murmuring
- nagging
- pettish
- petulant
- plaintive
- plangent
- querulous
- rebellious
- resentful
- restive
- restless
- short-tempered
- shrewish
- snappish
- sorrowful
- splenetic
- sulky
- testy
- tetchy
- touchy
- unaccommodating
- uneasy
- unfulfilled
- ungratified
- unhappy
- unsatisfied
- vixenish
- wailful
- waspish
- whiny