peevish

peevish is an   Adverb

Definition:

[1] Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

[2] Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

[3] Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak.

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