Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.
Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak.
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