Significados de peevish tone en inglés

It was, therefore, in a somewhat peevish tone that he inquired:

He does like to be alone sometimes, said the girl in a peevish tone.

Vexed at the disturbance, I inquired, in a peevish tone, "Who is there?"

He asked him, in a less peevish tone:

Oh indeed said Ethel in a peevish tone well how do you come to be here.

He interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-

In somewhat peevish tone he said:

Giovanni continued, in the peevish tone of a man who has been badly frightened and is ashamed of it.

He recognized that peevish tone.

Her face had a hungry, spiteful, leering expression; she spoke in a shrill, peevish tone, and wriggled nervously on her chair.

It was not long before hye appeared through the trees and as he rejoined his friends he said in a peevish tone:

And a voice that sounded exactly like Cousin Dan'l's called out in rather a peevish tone that he'd better look out where he stepped.

"There, you're in it again," complained the boy in his peevish tones.

'Well, then, what do you want?' demanded Jones, in a peevish tone; 'why do you trouble me?

'See to it these men are fed and escorted from the camp.' His peevish tone indicated his displeasure.

"I am trying to make sure misstatements by him are answered," Obama said with a peevish tone through a forced grin.