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Definition of Peevishly
1. Adverb. In a peevish manner.
Definition of Peevishly
1. adv. In a peevish manner.
Definition of Peevishly
1. Adverb. In a peevish manner or way. ¹
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Definition of Peevishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peevishly
Literary usage of Peevishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... passionately and peevishly (to say no worse) concurred in all the most violent
votes and actions which had been done from the beginning : for, ..."
2. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... when it has peevishly prevailed on us to abstain from something we have a mind
to, it gives itself airs, and in action pretends to be a personage, ..."
3. The Ladies Monitor: A Poem by Thomas Green Fessenden (1818)
"... you fall in time's arrears, Plod, peevishly adown the vale of yean, And where
will then your boasted partner rank, His heart a sink of vice, ..."
4. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley (1857)
""I told you already that I had," said I, peevishly. "Oh, you young vagabond! ...
peevishly."
5. Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three by Kazlitt Arvine (1848)
"He exclaimed, peevishly, " God sends meat to others, children to me." It so
happened, that God, at whose government he had so impiously murmured, ..."
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