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    peevish


    1. Timid and/or expedient politicians pandering to off the wall, lunatic fringe groups, whose members should have their collective heads examined, have lent legitimacy to peevish, ill-tempered designs in exchange for political party loyalty


    2. That rather conspicuous moment in American History witnessed a troubling transformation in American political thought that subsequently ushered the moral and intellectual decline of traditional liberalism that would (eventually) invest it with an entirely different meaning; not to mention a peevish intolerance for liberal values deemed inconsistent with the emerging New World Order


    3. “Surely by now,” Moshe interrupted, suddenly a little peevish at the suggestion, “the Fourth Army commander has already arrived in the City and will be anxious to know if his war machines have made it through all the disasters that have befallen all of us


    4. Although I can't imagine why," the General took in both Whitey and the USAF DO with an peevish glance, "the President would send an Air Force major general to check on an Army full general in charge of all operations, air and ground


    5. Linda had a peevish look on her


    6. “How can that be?” she accused in a peevish voice


    7. ” The peevish thought came and went almost immediately


    8. His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly printed on all faces of Jewish race without exception


    9. "Ah! That a merchant, who has large connections, a jurisconsult, a doctor, a chemist, should be thus absent-minded, that they should become whimsical or even peevish, I can understand; such cases are cited in history


    10. "Yes---very foolish: as if I took notice!" replied Catherine in a peevish tone

    11. He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature


    12. "Cross thing!" I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours


    13. "Joseph!" cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room


    14. I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?"


    15. That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely over-done with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes


    16. The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult


    17. Still, let it not be supposed that amid this affected resignation to the will of Providence, the unfortunate inn-keeper did not writhe under the double misery of seeing the hateful canal carry off his customers and his profits, and the daily infliction of his peevish partner's murmurs and lamentations


    18. He says this, a censor of morals, a very pelican in his piety, who did not scruple, oblivious of the ties of nature, to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic drawn from the lowest strata of society! Nay, had the hussy's scouringbrush not been her tutelary angel, it had gone with her as hard as with Hagar, the Egyptian! In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic


    19. The abundant hair and very open forehead gave an appearance of consequence to the face, which had only one expression— a petty, childish, peevish expression, concentrated just above the bridge of the narrow nose


    20. Bulstrode, opening her eyes with wider gravity at her brother, who was in his peevish warehouse humor

    21. I set the extinguisher on the flame, receiving as I did so a slap on my hand and a petulant ‘cross thing!’ I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours


    22. ‘Joseph!’ cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room


    23. I think I should not be peevish with you: you’d


    24. " He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him


    25. Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly


    26. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his will


    27. He interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:—


    28. Instead he got a peevish complaint: “It’s not as if I had money to take lessons


    29. Miss Minchin was as harsh and insulting as ever, Miss Amelia as peevish, and the servants were as vulgar and rude


    30. There were only three of them : an elderly naval man, always very peevish and exacting, though on this occasion he was quite quiet, and an elderly couple, respectable people of the small functionary class who came from the province of Tver

    31. And for that purpose he kept several distant relations: his sister, a sickly and peevish woman; two of his wife's sisters, also ill-natured and very free with their tongues, and his old aunt, who had through some accident a broken rib; he kept another dependent also, a Russianised German, for the sake of her talent for entertaining him with stories from the Arabian Nights


    32. He had a prospect again of no end of misery, and perhaps a night of tears and outcries from his peevish bride, and upbraidings from her unreasonable relations


    33. on your middle finger, with the little veins in it, what stone is that?” Mitya persisted, like a peevish child


    34. "And yet I was never at all intimate with that peevish old woman," Stepan Trofimovitch went on complaining to me that same evening, shaking with anger; "we were almost boys, and I'd begun to detest him even then


    35. Marie flew into a rage, but when Arina Prohorovna rushed up to take the key from him, she would not allow her on any account to look into her bag and with peevish cries and tears insisted that no one should open the bag but Shatov


    36. The afternoon we rehearsed for the wedding I looked at her, before we pranced down the aisle and endured the endless silly giggles of the bridesmaids, and the usher louts who would fall out of step, and grew more peevish by the minute


    37. “Hullo!” he said to the Hartopp, who looked properly peevish, and then waspish, as she let her glance travel to Natica, who stood perfectly poised and, I fancied, a trifle expectant


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    Synonyms for "peevish"

    cranky fractious irritable nettlesome peckish peevish pettish petulant scratchy techy testy tetchy sour short-tempered touchy grouchy acrimonious

    "peevish" definitions

    easily irritated or annoyed