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单词 peevish
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peevish
In this play-acting scenario, both parties exaggerate and flatten each other into caricatures in the course of an irritable andpeevishexchange.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Nearly half of the 75,493 troops were thus poorly trained, inexperienced, andpeevishconscripts.
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Well, he was wrong—as he frequently was —because, with the exception of a small,peevishminority, we all know very well what we want.
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I think the answer we have been given was a littlepeevish.
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I think the word "peevish" was rather unfortunate.
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I have not uttered these remarks in anypeevishspirit, but simply in the hope that some of these grievances may receive attention.
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Nothing like the firm smack ofpeevishgovernment!
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He waspeevishwhen he was interrupted, although most of us have to submit to interruption and try to do so without losing our equilibrium.
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But now, he seems to have been dropped from the side, and, naturally, having been left out of the first eleven, he has become a littlepeevishand restless.
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And all of them arepeevish, whingeing statements of the obvious, not one of which is bold enough to get to the heart of the matter.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I agree with some of the points he made, but in other parts of his speech it seemed to me that he was taking a somewhat narrow andpeevishview.
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The speech had a sort ofpeevishring which, on an issue of the transcendent importance of this one, seem to me to be extremely unfortunate.
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My recollection of housing meetings, albeit in a rural district council, when once or twice we had to consider rent increases, is that councillors became rather sour,peevishand bad-tempered.
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The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep make thempeevishand fretful.
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Wikipedia
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The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaning ornery or ill-tempered.
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