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Перевод: peevish

[прилагательное]
сварливый; раздражительный; брюзгливый; неуживчивый; капризный; свидетельствующий о дурном характере, настроении и т.п.

Тезаурус:

1. It was Hilary Robarts who asked the obvious question, sounding as accusatory as a peevish wife.
2. A friendly wave, before we go, to a most amusing Robert Austin as the earthy, peevish servant, who busts out, at the self-dramatising Laurel, "I was found in a field.
3. A spunky, peevish state that can occur with inflammation anywhere.
4. But a week before the examination he became restless and peevish.
5. There is a certain grudging margin, to be sure, about all that Mr Eliot writes - as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority.
6. Mr. Pedder, who had lived at Dove's Nest (near Low Wood, Windermere) "is a very good humoured man and a gentlemanly man when sober, but, nearly tipsy, is peevish and queer".
7. Then he got peevish and decided on a rain storm and the dinosaurs were so overgrown that they wouldn't fit into the ark so the flood destroyed them all.
8. Men should be walking about on Earth in a state of intoxication and delight, yet here we are amid these real riches and most people are miserable and peevish.
9. Seb looked slightly peevish.
10. For example, at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel, he had overheard two people talking to each other, a "very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse".
11. She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other.
12. "The marshal," complained one of his officers even before they set out on the futile march to Carlisle, "is infirm and peevish both in body and mind, forgetful, irresolute and perplext."
13. When he tries to sound fiercer he sometimes sounds peevish or wheedling.