peevishness

peevishness

noun

a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger: his temper was well known to all his employees; Synonym: temper biliousness irritability pettishness snappishness surliness

an irritable petulant feeling: Synonym: irritability crossness fretfulness fussiness petulance choler

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1

Be gentle In old age ; peevishness are worse second childhood than In first .

老来要和蔼；第二幼年期的乖戾暴躁，更有甚于第一期
2

Be gentle In old age ; peevishness are worse In second childhood than In first .

老来要和蔼；第二幼年期的乖戾暴躁，更有甚于第一期。
3

Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle .

怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄。
4

A pale , delicate , effeminate boy , who might have been taken for my master 's younger brother , so strong was the resemblance : but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect , that Edgar Linton never had .

一个苍白的、娇滴滴的、柔弱的男孩子，简直可以当我主人的小弟弟：两个人是这么相像：可是在他的相貌上有一种病态的乖僻，那是埃德加林惇从来没有的。