I don't think I deserve such a peevish response. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a peevish youngster. ,a peevish reply; a peevish frown. From Dictionary.com.
His face was insignificant, his expression peevish, his features without the animation of any high purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Box with Broken Seals] Reference
She is so pale, and so fretful, so peevish, which is not in her nature. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
Obama held his own and I didn't find him at all "peevish". From Wordnik.com. [Gallup: Hillary And Obama Both Electable In Purple States] Reference
Now I was feeling kind of peevish, my poor old eye felt sad and sore. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Haired Mary] Reference
I defy you to point to a single phrase in that speach that was "peevish" or "entitled.". From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: Obama Was "Part Time" State Senator] Reference
Like a ship in peevish ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
Resignation sinks into a kind of peevish discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference
His natural constitution rebels against such "peevish" drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
"You're kind of peevish today, ain't you?" inquired the other, grinning. From Wordnik.com. [Quill's Window] Reference
Picture emerging of Obama as arrogant, bored, and 'peevish' about campaign. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
« Picture emerging of Obama as arrogant, bored, and 'peevish' about campaign. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Media pundits warned that John McCain mustn't come across as "peevish" in the presidential debate Tuesday night. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Across her shoulder his gaze fell on me, with a kind of peevish wonder, and he drew back a little as if in the act to question her. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
For starters, Senator, please replace your media-intimidated handlers who don't know the difference between "peevish" and powerful. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Boswell, however, more than once complains that she was 'peevish' (post, Oct. 26, 1769 and April. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
"Well!" ejaculated Mike, with a thick utterance, and a kind of peevish gravity, "what do you see to laugh at in that?. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
The participants grow a bit peevish and grabby among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [After The Big One] Reference
No querulous or peevish complaints, no meanings over her hard lot. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
You have drifted into this peevish sort of pessimism without forethought. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He was more than ever peevish and self-willed, with this only difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
With this wrangled fitfully the cracked clarionet of some peevish brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Not the playful, warm man he could be, but the peevish, hyper man he also was. From Wordnik.com. [TALKING THE TALK] Reference
The manager's a slow, peevish man with a patch of white hair on the back of his head. From Wordnik.com. [Cure] Reference
McCain had seemed at first quite subdued, then a little cranky and peevish at moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
Even the sleepy children seemed to feel the strangeness and hushed their peevish crying. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Guinea fowls fretted about, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
It ought to make us so big that we can never speak a mean word, or do a petty and peevish thing. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
"You'll be getting a bit peevish maybe and might lose your sense of proportion after such a busy day.". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
If the candidate seemed weary and peevish or a little slow to respond at times, he never lost his cool. From Wordnik.com. [Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble] Reference
The startled air-hostess turned around, her earlier friendliness now replaced with an air of peevish annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One] Reference
He could be peevish and his temper often flared at trifles, while self-awareness could sometimes lapse into self-pity. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Prince] Reference
The disappointment had a visible effect upon her temper: she grew peevish, and dissatisfied with every thing about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
I used to get a little peevish about this January surge in traffic on the treadmill and Stairmaster, but I no longer do. From Wordnik.com. [When Best Intentions Aren’T Good Enough] Reference
"I don't care whether Tompkins comes off or not," replied Tom Aldridge in the same peevish tone as he had spoken at first. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
He and Bill Clinton then engaged in a prolonged and peevish sparring match that shrank both of them in the public's estimation. From Wordnik.com. [It's 1996--All The World's A Talk Show] Reference
It drove her almost mad to hear the child moaning and groaning, and calling out incessantly for water in a peevish, whining voice. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
We are talking to a garrulous and peevish sneak; we are watching the play of his paltry features, his evasive eyes and babbling lips. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
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