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peevishness
peevishness (ˈpiːvɪʃnɪs) [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being peevish. † 1. Silliness, foolishness, folly; madness. Obs.1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 637 With a pellit of peuisshenes they had suche a stroke. 1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. ii. ix. (1557), The more wee mocke you..and geu... Oxford English Dictionary
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peevishness
peevishnessn [U]. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Caffo
Parents would offer fowls to be eaten by the attendant priest, in order to stop their children from peevishness. wikipedia.org
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drollish
drollish, a. (ˈdrəʊlɪʃ) Somewhat droll.1674 tr. Scheffer's Lapland xxiv. 108 Imposing drollish nick-names upon them. 1759 Sterne Tr. Shandy II. xii, A drollish and witty kind of peevishness. Oxford English Dictionary
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Sloth (deadly sin)
sin to include despair, somnolence, idleness, tardiness, negligence, indolence, and wrawnesse, the last variously translated as "anger" or better as "peevishness wikipedia.org
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pettishness
ˈpettishness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being pettish; peevishness, petulance.1645 Bp. Hall Remedy Discontents xiv, To see his bounty contemned out of a childish pettishnesse. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia iii. iii, Cecilia [was] offended at her pettishness and folly. 1806 Edin. Rev. VIII. 162 T... Oxford English Dictionary
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A. B. Campbell
Julian Huxley took the whole thing seriously, and was irritated to the point of peevishness by foolish answers, especially if they were propounded by the wikipedia.org
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cholericness
† ˈcholericness Obs. [f. as prec. + -ness.] Choleric state or quality; passionateness, irascibility, anger, peevishness.1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 21 He compareth his choleriknesse to Leven. 1626 W. Sclater Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 295 Through pride of heart, and choleriquenes. 1747 Carte Hist... Oxford English Dictionary
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Walter Hoban
Givney's peevishness, and Jerry's own ineptitude. wikipedia.org
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snappishness
ˈsnappishness [f. snappish a.] The fact or quality of being snappish; sharpness, curtness, or peevishness of language or speech.1598 Florio, Proteruità, frowardnes,..skittishnes, snappishnes. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Snappishness, Crossness, Peevishness, Crabbedness in Speech. 1757 Rutty Spiritual Dia... Oxford English Dictionary
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Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester
Anne, who could herself be a formidable opponent, complained bitterly of her aunt's "peevishness" to her. wikipedia.org
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languidly
languidly, adv. (ˈlæŋgwɪdlɪ) [f. languid a. + -ly2.] In a languid manner.1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xlii. 386 The Menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, as it did before they were put into the Receiver. 1729 Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 99 Peevishness..languidly discharges itself upo... Oxford English Dictionary
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displicence
† ˈdisplicence Obs. [ad. L. displicēntia displeasure, f. displicēre to displease. Cf. the earlier displacence.] Displeasure, dissatisfaction.1605 Bell Motives conc. Romish Faith 102 Durand saieth, the faulte is remitted in purgatorie, for the displicence of venials, which the soules haue in that pla... Oxford English Dictionary
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protervity
protervity Now rare. (prəʊˈtɜːvɪtɪ) [ad. obs. F. protervité, ad. L. protervitātem forwardness, pertness, etc.: see prec.] Waywardness, frowardness, stubbornness; pertness, sauciness, insolence; peevishness, petulance; an instance of this.? c 1500 Proverbis in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 409 They that of ... Oxford English Dictionary
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conclamate
▪ I. † ˈconclamate, ppl. a. Obs. rare. [? ad. L. conclāmāt-us lamented, lamentable, pa. pple. of conclāmāre: see next.] ? Lamented, lamentable.1651 Biggs New Disp. 149 The conclamate cold of the ambient.▪ II. † ˈconclamate, v. Obs. rare. [f. L. conclāmāt-, ppl. stem of conclāmāre to call out togethe... Oxford English Dictionary
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