All 10 Uses
peevish
in
Adam Bede
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- Seth had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his mother, and timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.†
Chpt 4 *
- "What art goin' to do?" she said, rather peevishly.†
Chpt 10
- To the feminine mind in some of its moods, all things that might be receive a temporary charm from comparison with what is; and since Adam did not want to marry Dinah himself, Lisbeth felt rather peevish on that score—as peevish as she would have been if he HAD wanted to marry her, and so shut himself out from Mary Burge and the partnership as effectually as by marrying Hetty.†
Chpt 14
- To the feminine mind in some of its moods, all things that might be receive a temporary charm from comparison with what is; and since Adam did not want to marry Dinah himself, Lisbeth felt rather peevish on that score—as peevish as she would have been if he HAD wanted to marry her, and so shut himself out from Mary Burge and the partnership as effectually as by marrying Hetty.†
Chpt 14
- "I knew you were not in bed, my dear," she said, in her sweet clear voice, which was irritating to Hetty, mingling with her own peevish vexation like music with jangling chains, "for I heard you moving; and I longed to speak to you again to-night, for it is the last but one that I shall be here, and we don't know what may happen to-morrow to keep us apart.†
Chpt 15
- Hetty pushed it away peevishly; but this little flash of temper did what the salts could not have done—it roused her to wipe away the traces of her tears, and try with all her might not to shed any more.†
Chpt 18
- Of course, the secret of her objection to the best clothes was her suspicion that they were put on for Hetty's sake; but deeper than all her peevishness lay the need that her son should love her.†
Chpt 20
- But this second transfer had the unfortunate effect of rousing Totty, who was not behind any child of her age in peevishness at an unseasonable awaking.†
Chpt 26
- "Well, give me that," said Arthur, with the peevishness of physical depression.†
Chpt 28
- The one thing—the one person—her mind had rested on in its dull weariness, had slipped away from her, and peevish misery filled her eyes with tears.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)