peevish

• “It even has its own pair of Watchmen-style deconstructed superheroes: Mermaid Man, shuffling in peevish slippers toward senility, and his long-suffering sidekick, Barnacle Boy.”

  SpongeBob's Golden Dream

• “The word peevish would pretty well describe the condition of Mrs. Alstine, who had a chronic ailment that prevented her enjoying the hospitality of friends.”

  Five Thousand Dollars Reward

• “His face was insignificant, his expression peevish, his features without the animation of any high purpose.”

  The Box with Broken Seals

• “There is more poignant music in the Primavera, in the weary, indifferent countenances of his lean, neuropathic Madonnas -- Pater calls them "peevish" -- in his Venus of the”

  Promenades of an Impressionist

• “This question -- which Hohenfels called peevish as he buried himself in his book -- was not answered until we had passed Verviers, Chaudfontaine and Liège.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

• “She is so pale, and so fretful, so peevish, which is not in her nature.”

  White Lies

• “Obama held his own and I didn't find him at all "peevish".”

  Gallup: Hillary And Obama Both Electable In Purple States

• “I defy you to point to a single phrase in that speach that was "peevish" or "entitled.”

  Hillary: Obama Was "Part Time" State Senator

• “Now I was feeling kind of peevish, my poor old eye felt sad and sore”

  Red-Haired Mary

• “Resignation sinks into a kind of peevish discontent.”

  Records of a Family of Engineers

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