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Peevish   /pˈivɪʃ/   Listen
adjective
Peevish  adj.  
1.
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." "She is peevish, sullen, froward."
2.
Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
3.
Silly; childish; trifling. (Obs.) "To send such peevish tokens to a king."
Synonyms: Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.





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"Peevish" Quotes from Famous Books



... quiet evening, I should have a party. When you and he would like to slip off to a movie, you would have to be polite and invite me. Nobody could be crazier about nieces and nephews than I am, but sometimes if I were tired from my work their chatter might make me peevish. And you would punish them when I thought you shouldn't, and wouldn't do it when I thought you should, and think of the arguments there would be. And so we all agree, don't we, that it would be more fun for me to move off by myself and then come to see you and be company,—rather than stick around ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... virtue of the times, and indulgence to rebels has seldom been the virtue of princes. But when the prince descends to the narrow and peevish character of a disputant, he is easily provoked to supply the defect of argument by the plenitude of power, and to chastise without mercy the perverse blindness of those who wilfully shut their eyes against ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon
... lonely and idle for the first time in her busy, dull life, and her heart had just discovered its love-hunger, and was crying out in desolation. She wanted something to love and be loved by. She missed even the peevish, childish invalid whose last five years had been little else than a living death, with a mind so vague and hazy as seldom to know the faithful daughter who cared for her night and day. She missed the heart and soul out of life, the bit of color that would glorify ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... Mother Johnson who grumbled and fussed before she could be persuaded to take the walk the doctor had recommended. But, once outside, the sky was so blue, the air so pleasant, and Mary Rose so sociable that her face grew less peevish. ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... retires for meditation. On his return, he finds that his bride is peevish at being left alone even for a little time, and to soothe her, he describes the night which is now advancing. A few stanzas of ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa


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