peevishness

How To Use peevishness In A Sentence

• Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
• Rumors inevitably swirl: iodine has been blamed for AIDS, diabetes, seizures, impotence and peevishness.
• I admit my peevishness may be an overreaction but I'd be interested to know what other people think about this.
• There's something terribly reassuring about its year in year out peevishness, isn't there?
• Her peevishness was a ruse she employed to convince herself that she didn't like feeling his solid presence along her back, touching from shoulders to toes, nor the warm, damp gusts of his breath against her nape. The Thrill of Victory
• It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
• Rumors inevitably swirl: iodine has been blamed for AIDS, diabetes, seizures, impotence and peevishness.
• Note, We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when we are but advised and admonished; this peevishness is our folly, and a great wrong to ourselves and to our friends. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Not to be outdone in peevishness, the Emperor said the nightingale couldn't take off because he'd been banished from court forever. Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout"
• If your precautions are met with peevishness on the part of the guy, forget him.