peevishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.""
- "His uncles peevishly claimed the paper."
- "Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, "By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day.""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more peevishly (comparative)
most peevishly (superlative)