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In order to have sunlight at home, it is not enough negatively to abstain from fault-finding and general peevishness.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIEDE. J. HARDY."The police ought to stop it, I tell you," Willie insisted, with a peevishness that was like a dash of vinegar.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESPet, pet, n. a sudden fit of peevishness or slight passion: ill-humour.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSIf she were hard pressed she emitted a pathetic peevishness that rendered further argument impossible.
THE NECROMANCERSROBERT HUGH BENSONThey must be chastised out of their peevishness and lashed into obedience .
ANDREW MARVELLAUGUSTINE BIRRELLGood nature consists in a naturally amiable and even disposition, free from all peevishness and fretting.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CURIOSITIES, PART 12.JOHN JAY SMITHPeevishness, restlessness, vague longings and instability of character, are amongst the least of these.
FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHYCHARLES KNOWLTONI never go into the house unless I am sent for professionally, for their peevishness and bad temper are intolerable.
A GIRL OF THE COMMUNEGEORGE ALFRED HENTYFaults to be avoided; laziness, poetic fancies without basis, small tyranny, peevishness.
MANUAL OF THE ENUMERATIONC. J. COFFMANOften hast thou wetted the tunic upon my breast, ejecting the wine in infant peevishness.
THE ILIAD OF HOMER (1873)HOMERWORDS RELATED TO PEEVISHNESS
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- blow up
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- slow burn
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- blow up
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- mad
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- slow burn
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- short fuse
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- tizzy
- touchiness
- wax
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