peevish in English

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1. I have a peevish brother.

2. The child is never peevish unless sick.

3. Atrabilious Of a peevish or melancholy disposition

4. Sebastian was a sickly, peevish child.

5. Unreasonably irritable or ill - tempered; peevish.

6. We don't want to live with peevish person.

7. They were opionative, peevish, covetous, porase, vain, talkative.

8. She was peevish when she said that.

9. Crabby definition, grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; peevish

10. Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.

11. Not to be peevish, or morose, or suspicious.

12. Crabby definition is - easily irritated : peevish and irritable : grouchy

13. 26 Not to be peevish, or morose, or suspicious.

14. She reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.

15. The whole team was peevish after losing the game.

16. A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.

17. Cantankerous definition, disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish: a Cantankerous, argumentative man

18. The kids were peevish after so long in the car.

19. Aubrey had slept little and that always made him peevish.

20. He has grown peevish and fallen off from what he used to be.

21. But a week before the examination he became restless and peevish.

22. Injustice had made her peevish , and misery had made her ugly.

23. All this makes Stephen fretful and peevish as well it might.

24. She glared down at me with a peevish expression on her face.

25. Crosspatch definition: a peevish bad-tempered person Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

26. They were peevish , crusty, silent, eying nothing in particular and moving their feet.

27. Cavils: to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant

28. She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other.

29. Synonyms for Crotchety include cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, irritable, testy, fiery, fractious, grouchy and peevish

30. Synonyms for Curmudgeonly include irritable, testy, grumpy, cantankerous, irascible, peevish, grouchy, tetchy, crabby and cranky

31. Bicker definition, to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always Bickering

32. Bicker definition, to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always Bickering

33. Come over, you peevish girl! " said my husband walking out into the yard with a blow dryer."

34. Synonyms for Cattish include catty, petulant, cantankerous, snappy, nagging, discontented, quarrelsome, irritable, peevish and criticizing

35. Synonyms for Cantankerous include irritable, cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, testy, critical, fractious, grouchy and peevish

36. Cavil: to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant.

37. Caviled: to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant.

38. Why must you be so tight and controlled and peevish about riding in a taxi or getting mugged or something?

39. "Zizz, Wizz, Wizzz! " replied Babbitty Bumble in a peevish squeak. She sidled down a passage, and disappeared into a storeroom which had been used for acorns.

40. Crabbed Meaning: "peevish, angry, ill-tempered, spiteful," also "vicious, wicked, perverse," from crab (n.1), from the… See definitions of Crabbed.

41. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.

42. Informal a peevish bad-tempered person Word Origin for Crosspatch C18: from cross + obsolete patch fool Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & …

43. Choler in medieval science and medicine, one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile, believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible, or Choleric, temperament.Also known as yellow bile

44. This page shows answers to the clue Captious, followed by 3 definitions like “Apt to catch at faults”, “Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare” and “Peevish; ready to take offence or find fault”.A synonym for Captious is fault-finding.

45. ‘His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a Bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque.’ ‘It was a boisterous encounter, with the Senator alternating between his beaming Bluffness and peevish refusal to address the man …

46. ‘It was a boisterous encounter, with the Senator alternating between his beaming Bluffness and peevish refusal to address the man by name, referring to him as ‘this gentleman here’.’ ‘The song arouses even the lethargic Toby, reminding him of love and silently exposing what blocks it - …

47. Bilious (adj.) 1540s, "pertaining to bile, biliary," from French bilieux, from Latin biliosus "pertaining to bile," from bilis "bile; peevishness" (see bile).Meaning "testy, peevish, ill-tempered" (as people afflicted with an excess of bile were believed to be) is attested from 1560s.