How To Use Peevishness In A Sentence
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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
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Rumors inevitably swirl: iodine has been blamed for AIDS, diabetes, seizures, impotence and peevishness.
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I admit my peevishness may be an overreaction but I'd be interested to know what other people think about this.
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There's something terribly reassuring about its year in year out peevishness, isn't there?
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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
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It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
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Rumors inevitably swirl: iodine has been blamed for AIDS, diabetes, seizures, impotence and peevishness.
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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)
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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"
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If your precautions are met with peevishness on the part of the guy, forget him.
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-- This is indeed a weakness; but it is a weakness of nature, and which neither religion nor philosophy are sufficient to arm us against; and the very endeavours we make to banish, or at least to conceal our disquiets on this score, occasion a certain peevishness in the sweetest temper, and make us behave with a kind of churlishness, even to those most dear to us.
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
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There's a restlessness, a kind of peevishness, that bothers me.
Jack Cashill's strange notion that Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father."
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That which St. Austin said of himself here in this place, I may truly say to thee, thou discontented wretch, thou covetous niggard, thou churl, thou ambitious and swelling toad, 'tis not want but peevishness which is the cause of thy woes; settle thine affection, thou hast enough.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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One cringes at his bitterness, peevishness, and narcissism, but one also respects him for the fact that he cringes, too.
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A kind of peevishness, to which she had formerly been a stranger, was but too ready to appear, even when she was most anxious, in her converse with Harry, to behave well to him.
David Elginbrod
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I can only imagine that this display of peevishness, combined with you impassioned use of the Anglo-Saxon expletive, is an attempt to stymie your critics with the depth of your feeling rather than the strength of your arguments.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
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Be gentle in old age; peevishness is worse in second childhood than in first.
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Peevishness at news conferences is often his default position these days.
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Be gentle In old age ; peevishness are worse second childhood than In first.
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On a small island of the southern Atlantic, is shut up a remarkable prisoner, wearing himself out there in a feeble mixture of peevishness and jealousy, solaced by no great thoughts and no heroic spirit; a kind of dotard before the time, killing and consuming himself by the intense littleness into which he has shrunk.
Sermons for the New Life.
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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
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The cause of her peevishness was a swarm of intensely active flies.
Anderson Crow, Detective
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What was the nature of Stirner’s attack other than sheer peevishness, which is often quite enough, isn’t it?
Archive 2007-04-01
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It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
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He complained with characteristic peevishness.
