easily annoyed by unimportant things; bad-tempered:
Sebastian was a sickly, peevish child.
peevishly adverb:
'It's your own fault,' she said peevishly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for peevish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is peevish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, peevish is tagged as adjective.
Does peevish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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