Word: peevishly
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...might be worrying itself fretful over the high prices; it might be peevish over strikes or jittery about Communists. But the millions of Europe's war-ravaged continent had a more realistic view: America was still the great land of promise. In Greece, the U.S. embassy had enough applications to fill the immigration quota (307 a year) for 99 years...
Nightclub patrons are often sullen and quarrelsome. Overtime workers frequently have peevish dispositions. Can this bad temper be traced to lack of sleep...
Potshots and Self-Pity. A typical Chekhov study of frustration, the play is over, in a sense, before it starts: all that is left to most of its people is recriminations and regrets. A selfish mediocrity whose family pampered him and thought him great, Professor Serebryakou is peevish now for having got nowhere, for having got old. Middleaged, rust-covered Vanya -who has sacrificed his life to the professor and declared too late his love for the professor's shallow, pretty wife-wallows in self-pity, and when finally roused to rage takes potshots at the professor-and misses...
...something went wrong with Joe and his vision. In spite of his nightly visitation, he was still just a shabby little boy in a shapeless sweater. He grew sullen and peevish. When photographers took his picture he sometimes grinned and postured, but sometimes he kicked them in the shins or tried to tear up their film. He was not always kind to the people, ill or maimed, who sought his help; once he shouted to a roomful of them: "Get out of here...
...elderly couple sitting between the priest and the bride do not look like her, so are probably her new in-laws. The desiccated character opposite them, yelling for more beer, has "the same peevish expression-vanity without dignity, sourness without purity." But, like his father, he also has store clothes and an avaricious look. That's the man, says Highet. He is "rich but ill-mannered. That is why the bride is sitting quietly with downcast eyes. Her smirk means, 'I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband...