peevishness

How To Use peevishness In A Sentence

• One cringes at his bitterness, peevishness, and narcissism, but one also respects him for the fact that he cringes, too.
• He complained with characteristic peevishness.
• It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
• What was the nature of Stirner’s attack other than sheer peevishness, which is often quite enough, isn’t it? Archive 2007-04-01
• The cause of her peevishness was a swarm of intensely active flies. Anderson Crow, Detective
• Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
• On a small island of the southern Atlantic, is shut up a remarkable prisoner, wearing himself out there in a feeble mixture of peevishness and jealousy, solaced by no great thoughts and no heroic spirit; a kind of dotard before the time, killing and consuming himself by the intense littleness into which he has shrunk. Sermons for the New Life.
• Be gentle In old age ; peevishness are worse second childhood than In first.
• Peevishness at news conferences is often his default position these days.
• Be gentle in old age; peevishness is worse in second childhood than in first.