| Jim missed the days before Beth had gotten married and stopped setting the table, though he knew it was peevish of him. |
| He has been severely criticized as peevish, neurotic, rising only to mediocrity, but it was not an easy war to win. |
| A spotty youth with greasy black hair, he was sitting at the table with a peevish expression on his weaselly face. |
| As the authors have produced such a splendid book it seems peevish to point out deficiencies. |
| Harder to stomach is the peevish, chip-on-your-shoulder feminism that pervades so much of the book. |
| Latimer works with peevish focus, but then suddenly she's ready, shouldering an enormous external frame pack. |
