peevishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

peevish +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

peevishly (comparative more peevishly, superlative most peevishly)

  1. In a peevish manner.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XI:
      "See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."
    • 1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2,1:
      His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78:
      Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, "By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day."

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