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Meanings of very peevish in English

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Usage of very peevish in English
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Once or twice he got very peevish, and apologized for it.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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But brother Bosche will be very peevish about it.
The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
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Henrietta Hen spoke as if she were very peevish.
The Tale of Henrietta Hen
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Mrs. Selwyn,(101) who was on the panel, grew very peevish, and said, Pho!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Pisistratus bows, and looks round complacently; but recoils from two very peevish and discontented faces feminine.
"My Novel" — Volume 04
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She was well enough to be very peevish.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
7
He is an only child and is somewhat spoiled, and the pain he is suffering makes him very peevish and cross.
Mary's Rainbow
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When he thought fit to be angry, he had a very peevish Memory; there was hardly a Blot that escaped him.
Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Centu...
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Though his wife was very peevish, and hard to please, I much preferred to be under her control than the overseer's.
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
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Mrs. Williams was very peevish; and I wondered at Johnson's patience with her now, as I had often done on similar occasions.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Matilda sat scowling by the dark window a long time before she finally went to the door, for she was very peevish.
Friendly Fairies
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Meanwhile the girl had been looking for strawberries out of doors, but as she could find none she went home very peevish.
Grimm's Fairy Stories
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She had brushed away her tears, but she looked very peevish and miserable, and took out her watch several times in an hour.
Birds of Prey
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There was a shuffling and rattling and grunting, and Prickly Porky climbed up on an old stump, looking very peevish and much out of sorts.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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Very peevish & full of cuss.
Cabin Fever
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