peevishly

• “Heavens! said she, peevishly,' is this the gallant, polite Frenchman!”

  The Castle of Wolfenbach

• “The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window.”

  Wuthering Heights

• “Instead, Steve Jobs keeps the big picture in mind, as he reveals "peevishly" in a hysterical 2003 New York Timesinterview with Rob Walker at the end of a fascinating examination of the iPod as cultural artifact.”

  The Huffington Post: Dorie Clark: How to Create Thought-Leading Ideas

• “The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, “Ellen, shut the window.”

  Wuthering Heights

• “I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, "Ellen, shut the window.”

  Wuthering Heights

• “Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. ”

  A Simple Story

• “Ophelia and Daphne not down yet, Flavia?" he asked peevishly, looking up from the latest issue of The British Philatelist, which lay open beside his meat and potatoes.”

  Excerpt: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

• “Most of these things are prescriptive in some broad sense, no? — just not peevishly and snarkily so.”

  Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar

• “India said that you're a widow," he peevishly says.”

  The Huffington Post: Barbara Rose Brooker: Do Men Prefer Dating Widows To Divorcees?

• “He muttered peevishly, as there was much less in it than the last time he'd checked.”

  Fictionaut: Actor-Activist

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