peevish

How To Use peevish In A Sentence

• Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. A Simple Story
• A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.
• And it was not unknown for a peevish north-easter to blow in off the Wash from March to the end of June. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
• 'Heavens! said she, peevishly,' is this the gallant, polite Frenchman! The Castle of Wolfenbach
• A spotty youth with greasy black hair, he was sitting at the table with a peevish expression on his weaselly face.
• Don't get alarmed, don't get peevish, don't get panicky, don't be a wicked old flutterer, Ham, my boy!" he said. Bones in London
• Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
• ‘You never should have opened your mouth,’ warned the judge peevishly.
• Harder to stomach is the peevish, chip-on-your-shoulder feminism that pervades so much of the book.
• One cringes at his bitterness, peevishness, and narcissism, but one also respects him for the fact that he cringes, too.