The other ladies bore their own little troubles, and helped each other; but under the peevish egotism of the bride, her warmest friends revolted.
I know that practically, now, I would willingly join the others in going at anything, though I could not promise not to be peevish over my own stupidity sometimes, and if I was very much tired.
I wondered to see him bear, with a philosophical calmness, what would have made most people peevish and fretful.
DEAR SIR, 'I find you have taken one of your fits of taciturnity, and have resolved not to write till you are written to; it is but a peevish humour, but you shall have your way.
And this bewildered idealist was a very bigot in behoof of the common-sensical satirist, the almost peevish realist--Pope!
These poems of the "peevish realist," shall have no place, since Mrs Margaret Fuller so determines it, in the new literature of America.
He smiled affably in the face of this scattering fire of peevish glances, and did not dream of resenting any phase of them all.
With peevish fear, she saw her health decline, And cried, “Oh!
His mother, in a peevish mood, had ask‘d, ’Does your Augusta profit?
Thus will he ever bark,” in peevish tone An elder cried--“the cur must have a bone.
I should hate to have a school full of sickly, undergrown children, all peevish and weary and discontented; but all ours are cheerful and willing.
I know," interrupted the duke with peevish irritation.
He or she has pissed on a nettle; said of one who is peevish or out of temper.
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
He had a prospect again of no end of misery, and perhaps a night of tears and outcries from his peevish bride, and upbraidings from her unreasonable relations.
But on the other hand we shall have to guard against thatpeevish fastidiousness which narrows itself down until it can see nothing but defects and faults, and loses the power of humbly and genuinely admiring.
Refusing the assistance of a servant, Lemm packed his little portmanteau, growing peevish the while and groaning over it, and then tore up and burnt some sheets of music paper.
Peevish and wrinkled, his face bore scarcely any resemblance to that which, austerely inspired, had looked royally down upon Lavretsky twenty-four hours before, from all the height of its artistic grandeur.
Amabel was peevish with weariness; her bundles were sadly in the way, and at every step a cup-moss or marchantia dropped out, and Amabel insisted upon its being picked up.
A little too much drink made the windmiller peevish and pompous, but just now he spoke in a kindly, almost conciliating tone.
Then crept in pride, and peevish covetise, And men grew greedy, discordous, and nice.
But as the charm of novelty went off, I grew more fastidious; and besides, I discovered that she was of a peevish temper[298].
Black Jack to Peets, as he swabs off the bar in a peevish way.
I'm that peevish I simply ain't fit to stay yere nor go anywhere else.
In the same household came, as visitor, a little boy named Johnny, of a very peevish and fretful disposition.
There, you're in it again," complained the boy in his peevish tones.
He appeared peevish and backward, and my old friend whispered me, that he would never make a dry bargain: I therefore invited him to a tavern.
He refused physick, neglected exercise, and lay down on his couch peevish and restless, rather afraid to die than desirous to live.
The youngest loved him as a spoiled child will, for sake of gain; but the other two were peevish if he spoke to them.
The King would give her another token an she lost this one," the beggar whined in his peevish way.
One could not doubt that peevish words and angry retorts fell very naturally from those pale lips.
A little boy lay tossing fretfully on the sofa, but his peevish cry ceased for a moment as they entered the room.
For a single moment the look of peevishresistance that used to come so often to the child's face passed over it, but it changed as Christie stooped down, saying softly: "Will you walk?
No wonder that her aunt lost patience at last, calling the child peevish and wilful, and altogether unlovable, and declaring that she had more trouble and unhappiness with her than with all her sisters put together.
And the little fellow hushed his peevish cry, and tried to smile for a moment.
He did not mean to be rough with him, but the little fellow uttered a peevish cry, and pushed him away.
It was the sickly, peevish little Christie who suffered most.
Even the near approach to the house, and the thought of the peevish children and the dim attic-nursery, had no power to silence the song that her grateful soul was singing.
But before the week was over she had fallen back into the old way again; and when Effie came home on Saturday, she found her as wan and listless and peevish as ever.
Soon Nurse Panton joined us, her hair in corkscrews, looking very plain, peevish because she had not been called at midnight.
Old man Brown was coming across with the punt, mighty peevish because I'd dropped a horse carcass to rot at his cabin door, and still worse when he seen I had a lunatic roped in his bunk.
They could talk to her more at ease: she understood them so much more quickly; they had no need to beat about the bush to tell the little peevish complaints that they were half-ashamed to utter to Evelyn.
I don't like to be peevish to my servants, because it is unfair; they can't answer one.
I wish you would come and let me be peevish to you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peevish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
