I have personally decided this is the action of a peevish deity singling me out rather than the more likely cause being the lamentable state of the railways.
Perhaps they persuaded a peevish bureaucrat to expedite a critical records request. Any of these stories could be the grounds for an excellent personal statement, if carefully written to preserve ...
At times, she baited him into an irritated or peevish tone. Frequently, he was pushed onto the defensive. ABC’s moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, were far more aggressive in fact-checking ...
She becomes peevish about the dire warnings of her doctor (Vincent Macaigne) that her heart and liver are completely shot and that the stress of attempting to perform plus the meds she would need ...