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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.
