Примери за peevish

• In this play-acting scenario, both parties exaggerate and flatten each other into caricatures in the course of an irritable and peevish exchange.

• Nearly half of the 75,493 troops were thus poorly trained, inexperienced, and peevish conscripts.

• Well, he was wrong—as he frequently was —because, with the exception of a small, peevish minority, we all know very well what we want.

• I think the answer we have been given was a little peevish.

• I think the word "peevish" was rather unfortunate.

• I have not uttered these remarks in any peevish spirit, but simply in the hope that some of these grievances may receive attention.

• Nothing like the firm smack of peevish government!

• He was peevish when he was interrupted, although most of us have to submit to interruption and try to do so without losing our equilibrium.

• But now, he seems to have been dropped from the side, and, naturally, having been left out of the first eleven, he has become a little peevish and restless.

• And all of them are peevish, whingeing statements of the obvious, not one of which is bold enough to get to the heart of the matter.

• I agree with some of the points he made, but in other parts of his speech it seemed to me that he was taking a somewhat narrow and peevish view.

• The speech had a sort of peevish ring which, on an issue of the transcendent importance of this one, seem to me to be extremely unfortunate.

• My recollection of housing meetings, albeit in a rural district council, when once or twice we had to consider rent increases, is that councillors became rather sour, peevish and bad-tempered.

• The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep make them peevish and fretful.

• The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaning ornery or ill-tempered.