peevishness

1 There had been a spiteful peevishness about him for days past, which surprised Miss Wolfe no little.

2 Entitlement shifts from peevishness to what sounds like self-admonishment: "Not one single person on God's golden shore is entitled to one single thing," he sings.

3 For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.

4 Dr. Young posits that gorging on electronics can induce peevishness and tantrums.

5 Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.

怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄。

6 In the influential assessment of Richard Hofstadter, Prohibition was a farce, “a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness.”

7 I was vexed to the soul, and spoke with a peevishness unusual to me.

8 "It has been my fate never to have got the same advice for two weeks together since the day I entered on this weary suit," said Barrington, with a peevishness not natural to him.

9 No US president in modern times has addressed a UK prime minister with the open peevishness and contempt of Donald Trump’s tweet telling May to mind her own business.

10 He has grown peevish and fallen off from what he used to be.

他变得性情乖张，脾气暴躁，不似以前那么随和。

11 A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.

一个脾气暴躁的孩子自己不高兴也使别人不高兴。

12 In fact, if anything in “Olive and the Bitter Herbs” actually cloys, it is Olive’s own peevishness, strangely enough.

13 And like any 5-year old, Hrysha is peevish at times or complains about going to school.

14 Easy for a peevish white guy to say.

15 peevish patients in the doctor's waiting room

16 The actor nicely captures Higgins’s peevish hauteur and invincible self-assurance.

17 Margaret then instructed Reicht to be always kind and good humoured to Luke; and she would be a model of peevishness to him.

18 But Day-Lewis also lays bare the peevishness behind the smile — the arrogance, the contempt and, most of all, the childlike fragility that both aggravates Alma and keeps her coming back for more.

19 His peevishness is open and unguarded–which may well be a masterstroke in itself, making him seem more authentic.

20 I was disappointed to see the June 2 editorial “Bloody Baltimore” describe the police department’s behavior as “peevishness.”

1 易怒

huffish irritable crusty prickly touchy spiky scratchy fractious irascible hot-tempered crabbed bad-tempered peevish narky irritably irritability irascibility

2 爱发牢骚

querimonious sloppy whiny

3 脾气不好

disagreeable vinegary crotchety acidulous liverish cantankerously crabbily ill-humor ill-humour in bad humor out of humor

4 恼怒

huffish frustrated annoyed exasperated peeved narky peevishly irritation annoyance hump soreness pique gall strop exasperation chafe irritate irk exasperate