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peevishly

[ UK /pˈiːvɪʃli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a peevish manner

How To Use peevishly In A Sentence

  • Mrs. Laura Anderson considered the omission a lot more peevishly than she ought to have done. NIMITZ CLASS
  • Most of these things are prescriptive in some broad sense, no? — just not peevishly and snarkily so. Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
  • The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, “Ellen, shut the window. Wuthering Heights
  • If you read down the Hansard report, you'll see he then loses control altogether, peevishly expostulating, ‘We do not need moral lectures from the Conservative party.’
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  • ‘He didn't like you either, might I remind you,’ he responded peevishly.
  • She had grown ever more peevishly dependent on him.
  • Instead, Steve Jobs keeps the big picture in mind, as he reveals "peevishly" in a hysterical 2003 New York Timesinterview with Rob Walker at the end of a fascinating examination of the iPod as cultural artifact. Dorie Clark: How to Create Thought-Leading Ideas
  • ‘Well, I couldn't very well blurt out the truth,’ snapped Sam, peevishly.
  • Ophelia and Daphne not down yet, Flavia?" he asked peevishly, looking up from the latest issue of The British Philatelist, which lay open beside his meat and potatoes. Excerpt: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
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