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Peevish
Peevish meaning
Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny. | Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant. | Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.
Example sentences (3)
He was an older man, weary-looking and yawning, scowling at my Massachusetts license plate, his manner, in the Mexican policeman way, peevish.
Just what will happen when they come under the observation of Mr. Filer’s deer is problematic, as his antlered highness is of rather peevish disposition at this season of the year.
He was well informed on theological matters by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy, in which he was arbiter.