All 4 Uses of
peevish
in
Catch-22
- She frowned peevishly, her pride wounded.†
Chpt 18 *
- 'All right, let the insubordinate son of a bitch go,' General Dreedle snarled, turning bitterly away from his son-in-law and barking peevishly at Colonel Cathcart's chauffeur and Colonel Cathcart's meteorologist.†
Chpt 21
- 'I wish you'd stop picking on me about that dead man in your tent,' he pleaded peevishly.†
Chpt 24
- Colonel Cathcart blurted out from the corner peevishly.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things