peevishness

pee·vish (p

sh)

adj.

a. Querulous or discontented.

b. Ill-tempered.

2. Contrary; fractious.

[Middle English pevish, possibly from Latin perversus, past participle of perversus; see perverse.]

peevish·ly adv.

peevish·ness n.

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Noun	1.	peevishness - an irritable petulant feeling choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance ill humor, ill humour, distemper - an angry and disagreeable mood testiness, tetchiness, touchiness - feeling easily irritated pet - a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
	2.	peevishness - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" pettishness, snappishness, surliness, biliousness, irritability, temper ill nature - a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition querulousness - the quality of being given to complaining

Translations

peevishness [ˈpiːvɪʃnɪs] N → mal humor m

peevishness

n (= irritation) → Gereiztheit f, → Brummigkeit f; (= irritability) → Reizbarkeit f

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acrimony
asperity
bile
biliousness
choler
Crossness
Curstness
dorty
fretfulness
fussiness
ill humor
ill humour
ill nature
irritability
pettishness
petulance
protervity
querulousness
snappishness

Peevishness, complaints, exacting cross-examination she was used to, but this attitude of composed quiet, which seemed to come from the consciousness of power within, puzzled her.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

The audience took up the cry, the dogs barked more excitedly, and five minutes of hilarity delayed the turn which, when at last started, was marked by rustiness and erraticness on the part of the dogs and by great peevishness on the part of Wilton Davis.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

He had lost his peevishness, and could hide his indifference to people and his interest in food.

Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context

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