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Meanings of so peevish in English
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Usage of so peevish in English
1
My, I never saw a man so peevish as that stage manager.
2
Is my nephew and namesake so peevish a scapegrace? demanded the visitor.
3
I declare, she's made me so peevish, I could crush a grape.
4
He was so peevish that he threw all the apples away.
5
The family had never known her so peevish.
6
I have been so peevish and irritable.
7
Do not think me so peevish, love!
8
But it was not the thought of her neglected opportunities that was making her so peevish this morning.
9
I want you to see what you was doing, when you was so peevish a little while ago.
10
Spring is so peevish this year!
11
One of the fathers tells us, he found fasting made him so peevish that he did not practise it.'
12
It was not the colonel's fault, that I knew well; it was his affliction that made him so peevish and even wicked.
13
She is ill, or going to be ill. She is so pale, and so fretful, so peevish, which is not in her nature.
14
He became a trembling old man, at times so peevish that we were obliged to summon with an effort what he had been.
15
I was glad when she went off to college, because, though she's a kind-hearted girl, she was so peevish and untalkative it made me tired.
16
You Englishmen sometimes get so peevish when things don't go quite your way, and you weren't saying nice things to me last time we met.
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