Word: peevishly
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...Father was feeling a lot better today, but he was a bit peevish when I told him I could not do one favor that he asked...
...beats his way up from the ranks to the U. S. presidency and loses the woman he loves. Despite Antheil's claim that he is deeply patriotic ("in the Walt Whitman way"), that Transatlantic is an idealistic, not a satiric opera, it seemed to most just a peevish wholesale burlesque of the U. S. Satire or burlesque, it was voted a petty piece musically and dramatically. It pleased only those who could be taken in by noisy orchestration and such cinematized scenes as a lady in her bath, a night-club raid and the last frenzied minutes...
...feature article in this number is a peevish and patently injudicious attack on Professor Lowes, and it isn't as though the aggrieved author confined himself to the existing and obvious defects in the courses conducted by him: he is personal to the point of impertinence, sarcastic far beyond the limits of taste. That the examinations in English 72 and 32 are primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty...
Edouard Herriot, disgruntled incumbent of the Ministry of Education, fallen leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, and previously twice Prime Minister, to Cologne, Germany, where he grew still more peevish from tramping past exhibits at the International Press Fair...
...Even a peevish King would have found it good to be back in Spain. Merry, spanking breezes stiffened the purple Royal Standard above Castle Magdalena, which signified the presence of comely Queen Victoria Eugenie with Royal Infantes† and Infantas on the seaside at smart Santander. Her Majesty, a granddaughter of Britain's late Queen Victoria, would be pleased to hear the gossip of her native Court, pleased too that King Alfonso had "seen his tailor" in Savile Row so successfully. The tall Infantas would sit upon their taller father's knees like little girls, playing with...