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peevish
Meaning: easily irritated, especially by small annoyances
peevish in a sentence
How peevish is used in real sentences:
The peevish clerk sighed whenever a customer asked a routine question.
The exhausted child became peevish, complaining about the lights, the food, and the noise.
“Even a peevish volunteer, irritated by the squeaking chair and repeated instructions, could respond without revealing which prompt applied.”
— from the passage Answers Behind a Screen
Synonyms for peevish
Other words for peevish — irritable, petulant and testy — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of peevish
Words that mean the opposite of peevish:
Where it comes from
From Middle English pevish, meaning 'ill-tempered or perverse.'
Memory hook
PEEVISH contains PEEVE: a peevish person is easily peeved.