peevish 的定义
- cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- showing annoyance, irritation, or bad mood: a peevish reply; a peevish frown.
- perverse or obstinate.
peevish 近义词
irritable, testy
peevish 的近义词 47 个
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
peevish 的反义词 4 个
更多peevish例句
- The young people in Girls are miserable, peevish, depressed, hate their bodies, themselves, their life, and each other.
- Impatient and dismissive, punctuated by forced, faked little laughs and peevish demands for more airtime.
- But under questioning, he continued to look peevish and evasive, and in denial about the judgment problems being exposed.
- He that refused a pipe in company was accounted peevish and unsociable.
- Outside the coach his voice still urged her, and it grew peevish and angry, as was usual when he was crossed.
- "Men style the peevish resentment such dispositions exhibit, 'honor,'" returned Charley, with a half bitter emphasis.
- I wish to know if Mr Lyson since his return to his native country, continues in his peevish cross temper.
- We were whimpering and peevish; we were wracked with pain and weary of mind, but that nurse never failed to smile.