How To Use Peevishly In A Sentence
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Mrs. Laura Anderson considered the omission a lot more peevishly than she ought to have done.
NIMITZ CLASS
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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
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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
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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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Rational Review
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‘He didn't like you either, might I remind you,’ he responded peevishly.
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She had grown ever more peevishly dependent on him.
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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
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‘Well, I couldn't very well blurt out the truth,’ snapped Sam, peevishly.
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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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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
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Paul looked through his green glasses peevishly when the other speaker brought down the house with applause.
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He told me so, peevishly, when I interviewed him.
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'It's your own fault,' she said peevishly.
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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
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‘This country needs engineers,’ she muttered peevishly.
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And let it be remembered, as an admonition to the genus irritabile of dramatick writers, that this great man, instead of peevishly complaining of the bad taste of the town, submitted to its decision without a murmur.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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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
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‘You never should have opened your mouth,’ warned the judge peevishly.
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'Heavens! said she, peevishly,' is this the gallant, polite Frenchman!
The Castle of Wolfenbach
