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Usage

• churlish

  Someone who is churlish is impolite and unfriendly, especially towards another who has done nothing to deserve ill-treatment.

• mawkish

  Something is mawkish when it is overly sentimental and silly in an embarrassing way.

• brackish

  Something brackish is distasteful and unpleasant usually because something else is mixed in with it; brackish water, for instance, is a mixture of fresh and salt water and cannot be drunk.

• peckish

  If someone is feeling peckish, they are feeling irritable or quick to snap at people—possibly because they are hungry.

• bookish

  characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

• bullish

  expecting a rise in prices

• coldish

  Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

• feverish

  marked by intense agitation or emotion

• fiendish

  extremely evil or cruel

• greenish

  of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum

• largish

  somewhat large

• loutish

  ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance

• puckish

  naughtily or annoyingly playful

• sottish

  given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol

• sweetish

  somewhat sweet

• vixenish

  shrewish and malicious

• waggish

  witty or joking

• warmish

  something warm

• waspish

  very irritable

• youngish

  somewhat young