1. peevish - Adjective
2. peevish - Adverb
3. peevish - Adjective Satellite
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
Silly; childish; trifling.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am not complaining, mind you,” the simurgh was saying in a grumpy, peevish tone of voice a while later, "I was merely pointing out that when one must tamper with the forces of nature, it is better to err on the side of caution and of prudence, than to be too liberal. Lin Carter
Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven. Matthew Prior
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. Desiderius Erasmus
I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry. Maureen Johnson
The best of men have ever loved repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy fray; Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. James Thomson (poet)
Then said a Second - "Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy, And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy." Omar Khayyám