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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