Definition of Peevishnesses

1. peevishness [n] - See also: peevishness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peevishnesses

peesweep
peesweeps
peetweet
peetweets
peeve
peeved
peever
peevers
peeves
peeving
peevish
peevishly
peevishlyer
peevishlyest
peevishness
peevishnesses
peewee
peewee golf
peewees
peewit
peewits
pefloxacin
peg-and-socket articulation
peg-and-socket joint
peg-leg
peg-legging
peg away
peg back
peg down

Literary usage of Peevishnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854)
"These peevishnesses 1 have been a witness to a long time. It is envy at bottom. They see the superiority of the Massachusetts to every one of them, ..."

2. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1857)
"... peevishnesses and uneasy accents of sickness, and spend themselves in trifling instances ; and in the bett more sanctified, it goes off in prayers, ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"... petty resentments, and peevishnesses of all sorts; driving him to that wretched alternative, intoxication, to' procure an oblivion for his annoyance. ..."

4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward and apt compliances, their trilling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."

5. The World's Great Sermons by Grenville Kleiser (1908)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward and apt compliances, their trifling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."

6. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward and apt compliances, their trifling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."

7. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard (1828)
"... and peevishnesses, which were abroad, he valued no more than the motes in the sun. But that the Parliament should now dispute his office under whose ..."

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