| Lyra, who is apparently cast as a rebellious, headstrong girl, comes across as peevish and irritating. |
| There he catered to couples, snazzy middle-aged divorced female cliques and peevish teenagers. |
| Marshall, on the other hand, always sounded peevish, arrogant and condescending. |
| Boswell, peevish after spending a night in a haybarn, complained of the lack of marble monuments. |
| A spotty youth with greasy black hair, he was sitting at the table with a peevish expression on his weaselly face. |
| Jim missed the days before Beth had gotten married and stopped setting the table, though he knew it was peevish of him. |
