(1) Lyra, who is apparently cast as a rebellious, headstrong girl, comes across as peevish and irritating.

(2) It just means that you do have license to break; that you are not just being peevish .

(3) By the time we emerged in the canning shed, Granny was back to her usual peevish self, as if nothing had happened.

(4) He calms down but remains peevish ; much in the way of a child who does not get his/her own way.

(5) Marshall, on the other hand, always sounded peevish , arrogant and condescending.

(6) Everyone looked angry, except Joyuko who looked more skeptical than peevish as she usually did.

(7) Linton was now only peevish instead of fearful; with the danger to himself over, he relaxed.

(8) Arilss was deposited on Morgan's other side, looking equally peevish .

(9) She clenched the air in her hands like a peevish child.

(10) Not entirely not herself, but still a little peevish .

(11) He becomes more and more peevish and tiresome, the archetypal boring jokey uncle of TV sit-corns, as his music becomes more and more unfathomably deep.

(12) I think Stewart is kind of funny, but also peevish - not as nimble at turning things into fun as he used to be.

(13) Always being overlooked would cause a person to become peevish .

(14) It happens and we shouldn't get peevish about it.

(15) I'm not sure why it is that liberals have become gloomy, scolding, peevish and puritanical, but so they have.

(16) I spoke with the tone of some peevish adolescent, arms tense at my sides, and eyes like two slits expelling charcoal fog.

(17) To some he seemed peevish and antsy-almost wired.

(18) I know you dislike receiving correspondence from one such as I, the basest of the base, and I know it makes you slightly peevish and completely spoils your day, nonetheless, I have dire news, indeed.

(19) Maybe she is glacial and peevish ; maybe you've already stuck around way too long.

(20) Either way I was feeling a tad peevish at the moment.