Crossword clues for peevishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peevishness \Pee"vish*ness\, n. The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
Syn: See Petulance.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being peevish.
WordNet
n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, petulance, choler]
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
Usage examples of "peevishness".
He handed her a mug of coffee with a disarming smile and she found her peevishness evaporating.
She had forgotten her peevishness, bent on feeding him, seeing, now that she really looked at him, that he was tired to his bones.
Loris seemed to put aside his peevishness only a little to greet Hoddan.
He wanted to implode his features, to crush air from his mouth, in a way and to a degree that might be set against the mess of feelings she aroused in him: indignation, grief, resentment, peevishness, spite, and sterile anger, all the allotropes of pain.
Zhadnoboth had hidden himself away with these waterbags, either out of peevishness or for reasons of sorcery, and ensorceled them so they held four or five times more water than they did before.
This helped explain the peevishness, for the former reclined in the shade of a roof while the latter was protected only by a turban.
Asleep in his five-star accommodations, snoring with a contentment that belies three weeks of peevishness, William Hope Planter is now well acclimated to thirteen and a half thousand feet.
Well, that was as much a reflection of his own unsettled emotional state as Aya's peevishness.
The orang-utangs were gentle, placid, rather lethargic creatures upon the whole, not particularly sociable and not at all gregarious - Muong never showed him more than five at once, two sisters and their young but they often came down from the flattish nests in which they spent so much of their time and sat with him and Muong, looking earnestly into his face, their lips pursed and thrust forward, as though they were going to whistle, and sometimes gently touching him, his clothes, his meagre hair, his pallid, almost naked arm (their hands, though scaley, were quite warm) Once it was a perfectly enormous old male that came down by a liana as thick as a cable and sat at the foot of has tree with them he was old, he had the expanded cheek-pads and the throat-pouch of the aged mias, but none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.