Both Uses
peevish
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MS. Found in a Bottle
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- His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God.†
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- He muttered to himself, as did the first seaman whom I saw in the hold, some low peevish syllables of a foreign tongue, and although the speaker was close at my elbow, his voice seemed to reach my ears from the distance of a mile.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)