peevish

What was the use of being peevish with the women?

Being peevish was not what the office expected of its agents.

I just know,' the old man cried in a peevish voice.

Jake gets peevish when someone questions things after everything has already been decided.

Even as I had that thought, another more peevish one crept in.

But you never had more trouble with a peevish girl going to her first feast.

Get on with it,' said a thin peevish voice from the air beside him.

He was kind enough to be apologetic instead of peevish.

She can have a peevish, critical air and seems easily annoyed.

"You could give me a hand," muttered the peevish voice.

She is a peevish woman with gray skin and sharp features.

She looked up from her work and uttered a peevish complaint.

"Take all you want," Braun said in a peevish voice.

Kate, a child of the city, is peevish and unhappy.

As the day drew near, I became peevish and snappy.

It was a peevish lecture on all the things that people could learn from ants.

The rising voices in camp turned peevish, drawing him around.

So she called, and eventually Maiden's peevish voice came over the channel.

They tended to grow peevish when forced into another routine.

The sight of this at once made her peevish.

He set the book down deliberately and looked peevish.

She sounded peevish, like an adult trying to control unruly children.

He was peevish, but able; he had plans worked out for them.

The door closed behind him with a distinctly if impossibly peevish sound.

I don't mean to be peevish here, but why can't we have them?