Peevish
['piːvɪʃ] or ['pivɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.
錄入:罗莎莉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Fretful, petulant, querulous, irritable, waspish, snappish, pettish, captious, cross, crusty, snarling, testy, churlish, crabbed, acrimonious, irritable.
校對:迈拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fretful, querulous, petulant, testy, captious, waspish, splenetic, ill-natured,irascible
ANT:Genial, complaisant, insensate, inquerulous, easy, good-natured, good-tempered
錄入:凯文
解釋/意思:
adj. habitually fretful: easily annoyed: hard to please: showing ill-nature: childish.—adv. Peev′ishly.—n. Peev′ishness.
編輯:马里奥
例句/造句/用法:
- I expect he be mighty peevish when he find we ain't got no more sense than to stay right here after he done give us the chance to get away. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- His tears and lamentations made Becky more peevish than ever. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This both I and Mr. Dundas took pains to impress on his mind; but the peevish, fretful creature refused to hear reason. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The family had never known her so peevish. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One morning little Georgette had been more feverish and consequently more peevish; she was crying, and would not be pacified. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
編輯:马里奥