peevishness

I asked, with more than a little note of peevishness in my voice.

I took the message, already ashamed of my own peevishness.

In the end, there was no peevishness among the contestants.

It had, she reflected with a touch of peevishness, been made up for her.

Why not, she thought on a surge of weary peevishness.

There is also a touch of peevishness among the intelligentsia.

There was a touch of peevishness in her voice.

His voice comes out with more pedantic peevishness than he intended.

But one of his motives for that attempt had been pure peevishness.

Robert felt something more than the natural peevishness of a betrayed parent or guardian.

"Well, give me that," said Arthur, with the peevishness of physical depression.

I miss your peevishness when we stumbling men say something particularly egregious.

"Go on, then," she says, with a trace of peevishness.

She even man ages to express peevishness in a really funny way."

Now that so many economists are blogging, we can all enjoy their peevishness.

In the actual situation, however, the minute he rebuffed me I had another attack of peevishness.

There was no hint of reprimand or peevishness in his tone.

His attitude suggested peevishness, provoked by conditions not immediately evident.

She drew a steadying breath; all the same there was peevishness in her voice.

His peevishness with the profession dated back that far.

His face was perhaps too much inflamed, and there was about him a look almost of peevishness.

Her voice held just a trace of peevishness.

Press was mixed and interviews tended towards incoherence or peevishness.

A period of sexual temptation is an excellent time for working in a subordinate attack on the patient's peevishness.

The mood of peevishness was not limited to Mr. Washington.