peevishly🔊

In a peevish manner.

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"See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."

Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.

Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, "By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day."

Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent

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