Word: peevish
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...Peevish old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who gets more respectable as the years go by, was not surprised when a committee of distinguished fellow Britons unanimously selected him as the man best qualified to create a memorial to South Africa's late Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts. Said he: "I deserve...
...became more crotchety, peevish, less productive as the '30s passed. But World War II sent her into an enraged flurry of writing: she had "enlisted for the duration." No one knew better than Edna Millay what poor stuff it was. Of Make Bright the Arrows she wrote: "A piece of propaganda, acres of bad poetry." She was sure that no matter what else she might do, "lovers of pure poetry . . . will . . . never forgive me for writing this book." She wrote a lot more "duration" poetry, and the last year of the war she paid with a breakdown...
They regard him as too peevish and prejudiced to rally much strength, and the untouchables too unorganized and inarticulate to follow his lead, even though he claims to speak for them...
...writes straight with crooked lines," muttered an old woman of the island as she poked her peevish fire. In her roundabout way, she was meaning Vera Reilly and Martin Gallagher and she was right in at least this much, that no human hand" could make straight the vexatious scribble of their lives...
...pills, but told Carter's to stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions in which an individual feels "down-and-out, blue, down-in-the-dumps, worn out, sunk, logy, depressed, sluggish, allin, listless, mean, low, cross, tired, stuffy, heavy, miserable, sour, grouchy, irritable, cranky, peevish, fagged out, dull, sullen, what's-the-use, bogged down, grumpy, run down or gloomy...