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Significats de peevish en anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "irritable"
Examples for "irritable"
1
The point is, that on this particular day the lieutenant was irritable.
2
Nivea's balm will soothe irritable skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
3
But I was in a state of mind bordering on the irritable.
4
In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was irritable and unjust.
5
Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly irritable.
1
Emphasising the feel good factor in Julian's petulant possessiveness is surely misguided.
2
Yvonne felt petulant toward these people she had liked only minutes before.
3
Lem knew he sounded petulant, but he also knew he was right.
4
Corona was silent; it was her only weapon when he became petulant.
5
No longer petulant or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency.
1
His methods, once dismissed as cranky and left-field are now accepted practice.
2
Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me cranky.
3
She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her cranky.
4
He's cranky as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5
I was cranky thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1
Such talk usually generates fractious debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
3
The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.
4
The fractious atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5
The incident adds another complication to fractious ties between the two countries.
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports, scratchy CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little scratchy blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and scratchy, the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really scratchy.
5
But a hot, scratchy rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1
The General began to turn a little testy as the constable finished.
2
She wasn't quite sure why she had been so testy with him.
3
Mr. Merrick left the office in a rather humbled and testy mood.
4
The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more testy.
5
There was real feeling in the testy old lady's face and voice.
1
It has been an inevitably tetchy beginning to the new Dáil term.
2
On the Monday night he was a bit tetchy, a bit tired.
3
The tetchy Brit thawed out after a couple of bottles of wine.
4
A few tetchy exchanges between US and Colombian players in the aftermath.
5
Richard Eyre, a nice guy, confined himself to the odd tetchy postcard.
1
Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
2
He turned on Sam with the pettish anger of the mild man.
3
Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a pettish push.
4
He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
5
And he added with pettish emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
1
There's also a Continental food and craft market if you get peckish.
2
A peckish Saturn fresh run out of young, the town devours itself.
3
A fear rises up within him: he is starting to feel peckish.
4
Having survived your morning bath, you may be feeling a little peckish.
5
And with someone who closed their eyes and someone who was peckish.
1
You are the third techy audience that I have given this to.
2
BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and loopy, techy pop music is far from basic.
3
Climb thin cracks and a techy face, with stunning views of Mt.
4
So it's just a techy way of lighting the menu of our game.
5
Among the techy outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.
1
Drummer had started crying, a nettlesome sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2
The most nettlesome issues for industry are security and accounting.
3
The timing involved in selling it, though, can be nettlesome.
4
A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations nettlesome.
5
This leads us to the nettlesome subject of authenticity.
Ús de peevish en anglès
1
So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battleston car.
2
I am growing peevish-andtired; and will leave off writing for to-day.
3
We sat in the smoking-car, Hawkins by this time ill and peevish.
4
He that refused a pipe in company was accounted peevish and unsociable.
5
Walking towards the door, Alfred poured forth a torrent of peevish abuse:
6
This particular cow was shy, apprehensive, peevish; Branch's unpractised fumbling irritated her.
7
I abhor the sea, and am peevish with every creature about me.
8
The expression of his face was intelligent, but cramped and somewhat peevish.
9
He grew peevish, suspicious, and more violent than ever in his excesses.
10
I think that rather an arbitrary and peevish canon of friend Horace.
11
Gentlemen, we must not be peevish with those who serve the people.
12
He had a peevish mouth and big blue pouches below his eyes.
13
And this was through no peevish or disagreeable traits in Zora's nature.
14
And I a tiresome girl, a little old woman, peevish and sanctified.
15
He was more than ever peevish and self-willed, with this only difference.
16
But his wife was discontented, always peevish and never satisfied with anything.
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