Sentence example with the word 'peevish'

peevish

acrimonious, catty, cranky, displeased, growling, irritable, naggy, rebellious, sulky, ungratified, whiny

Definition adj. easily irritated or annoyed

Last update: July 4, 2015


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Radha is a mad and peevish girl.   [adjective]

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Sometimes there are peevish voices in the craft world demanding respect from the contemporary art world.   [adjective]

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Member for North-East Hertfordshire experienced halfway through his speech, when he became peevish about proportional representation.   [adjective]

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Peevish all night; in part (I think) because not yet recovered of his weaning, and also because his teeth (second pair on lower jaw) are troubling him.   [adjective]

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He interrupted Marius in a peevish tone: "Then why did you come."   [adjective]

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Come, man, be not peevish, but remain and hear our glee.   [adjective]

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The Dwarf watched them with the eye of a taskmaster, and testified, by peevish gestures, his impatience at the time which they took in adjusting the stone.   [adjective]

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

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Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly.   [adjective]

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Yet this jealous, peevish, waspish little man became the most famous poet of his age and the acknowledged leader of English literature.   [adjective]

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His chief defect was an over-sensitiveness, leading to peevish and unreasonable behaviour in his private and official relations, to hasty and unbalanced judgments of persons and things that had given him annoyance, and to a despondency and discouragement which frustrated the great good he might have effected as a philosophic critic of public affairs.   [Please select]

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