Peevish Synonyms and Antonyms

Peevish Sentence Examples

• It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.

• Member for North-East Hertfordshire experienced halfway through his speech, when he became peevish about proportional representation.

• I think they must have been given to feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and more ineffectual.

• Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.

• His chief defect was an over-sensitiveness, leading to peevish and unreasonable behaviour in his private and official relations, to hasty and unbalanced judgments of persons and things that had given him annoyance, and to a despondency and discouragement which frustrated the great good he might have effected as a philosophic critic of public affairs.