(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.
Example Sentences:
(1) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(2) he says, but his laughter sounds more peevish than amused.
(3) By the end of the episode, a secret letter from Matthew granting his share of the estate to Mary – passing over George, his son – has turned up; Lord Grantham has bravely acceded to a partnership with his most peevish daughter; Lady Cora has found a new maid and Carson has come to terms with his past.
(4) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(5) When judges in New Jersey made it the fourteenth state (and third most populous, after California and New York) to join the club, the good people of cable news spent almost no time talking about the men and women getting married – and much more talking about Chris Christie, the peevish governor who dropped his appeal .
(6) That’s the peevish cry of our toddler culture | Marina Hyde Read more It was a privileged, cushioned move, smoothed by the presence of my mother, who waited a few months for me to settle down.
(7) From his tobacco-fugged study in Croisset, the Normandy hamlet where he lived with his mother and niece, Flaubert created an autonomous parallel universe: fiction as refuge from an outside world full of pain, peevishness and bourgeois vulgarity.
(8) Then he reversed the usual procedure and moved us greatly in the early scenes, where Lear so often only shows for a peevish tyrant.
(9) That’s the peevish cry of our toddler culture | Marina Hyde Read more The former Everton, Spurs and Barcelona striker has continued to speak his mind on Twitter despite the polarised reaction.
(10) This peevish remark, however, came from an unusual source.
(11) One is tempted to focus on her peculiarly peevish demeanor, a Grinchy soft-talking that sounds, even at the start of speeches, like she’s already had.
(12) When he's not pebbledashing the screen with peevish vowels the duke – AKA John Spencer-Churchill, AKA, bewilderingly, "Sunny" – spends his time power-walking along staggeringly ornate corridors, a maddeningly elusive blur of industry and corduroy.
(13) As he remarks peevishly to his wife when she shakes him out of yet another reverie: "Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?"
(14) I smell with my little nose peevish self-doubting straights: were same-sex couples considered fine until they started getting good and winning trophies?
(15) But I am tired beyond belief of the peevish and western-centric commonplace that Ai is, somehow, both a heroic activist and a mediocre artist.
(16) It seems there is no one in Number 10 willing or able to tell her that she often comes across as arrogant and complacent, another difference from Corbyn, whose advisers have successfully convinced him to hide his peevish irritation with impudent journalists.
(17) Hubristic, peevish, and not a little paranoid, only he has the power to reverse this.
(18) Amarkhil himself was allegedly captured in some of the conversations played to journalists, asking a contact to "bring the sheep, stuffed properly", but also complaining peevishly about how little attention Ghani was giving him.
(19) We’ve got some good friends who are gay and they should have the right to be married.” A lone protester is sitting outside with police, peevish and aggrieved: “They grabbed me and pushed me out.
Teeny
Definition:
(a.) Very small; tiny.
(a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(2) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(3) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
(4) The ITV pictures showed him level when the ball was played, then the computer showed his leg was sticking out but, even if you accept it was accurate modelling, doesn't that mean he was level except a teeny weeny bit of him (what happened to the 'daylight' rule?).
(5) He gets a nice comic entrance – stepping out suddenly from beneath a vast coronation mantle to reveal how teeny-weeny he is.
(6) Teeny's daughter later remembered: "My mother told me that at one point Henry Miller had a crush on her, but he was rather vulgar ... whereas Marcel had a very light touch."
(7) "You could have it pumped directly into your stomach at ten pints a second and you would still metabolise the teeny tiny amounts of alcohol faster than it enters your body.
(8) Brigitte is a posh wendy house for grown ups, I realised as we squeezed ourselves inside the nine-metre-squared space, which somehow fits a double bed, a tiny table, chair and stool, a teeny bathroom with shower, two slender wardrobes, three shelves, and a kitchenette, with fridge, hob and coffee maker.
(9) When I was really teeny, I used to pull the curtains across the bay window and come out, play my plastic ukulele, and pretend to be Elvis Presley or Lonnie Donegan .
(10) Unlike the previous limited run Minecraft sets, which feature small sections of blocky landscape and teeny creepers and zombies, the two new sets The Cave and The Farm are scaled around normal-sized minifigure models – like most of the major Lego series.
(11) But it's only 20 quid, says my teeny voice of reason.
(12) I’m still in touch with some of the people who stayed in my teeny flat, and the thoughtful gifts left by others are on my shelf.
(13) Thanks to the imagination and energy of a new generation of performers and composers, the teenies could be better still.
(14) According to Teeny, it was the only time she had to remove his shoes before bed.
(15) The bricks are losing weight due to decades of radiation but a spokeswoman for EDF said the new limit was only a "teeny little step" that was well within the most conservative safety case.
(16) No doubt in some blue-sky meeting, some sunny morning before Steve Hilton left, when everyone was still allowed to wear sandals and think of ways to turn the UK into a teeny, cut-price America, this seemed like a good idea: why do charities have to stick their oar in?
(17) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(18) Now, back to Dr Ken: sweet, sincere, a teeny bit dull.
(19) Microsoft is also trying to court these teeny studios too – everyone wants to find the next big crossover hit, like Minecraft.
(20) Alexina Sattler (Teeny) In 1954, Duchamp married Sattler, the former wife of art dealer Pierre Matisse and son of the painter Henri Matisse.