While Steve Jobs is certainly capable of being peevish and capricious, his criticisms have the ring of truth.
Obama spoke with confidence, optimism and grace, avoiding that peevish self pity he is prone to.
His petulance is becoming legendary, whether giving peevish speeches at the Grammys or whining about Time magazine misquoting him.
Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.
Surely - surely - the House of Commons cannot go on tolerating this greedy, partial, petulant, chippy, peevish, bellicose, socialist dunderhead.
That is the special kind of bogus sorry containing no remorse, only peevish irritation at having been caught doing something deemed unacceptable.
Such is the game plan of the peevish scolds of political correctness.
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The peevish put-downs, overweening sense of entitlement and volcanic temper tantrums could all hit uncomfortably close to home if Ferrell and Reilly didn't appreciate the ridiculous side of adolescent angst.
Publishers were initially peevish about Flipboard since it seemed to be scraping a large enough snippet of content from sites to discourage people from going to the site where the ads are served.
Even established authors can fall victim to bouts of public childishness, as author Alice Hoffman did in several peevish Tweets to a Boston Globe critic who gave her a mildly critical review.
It may seem peevish to complain that the course generally acknowledged as the toughest in America (the Ocean Course's Slope rating is 155 and its course rating is 79.6 from the extreme tips) is not tough enough, but the truth is that, for the pros, Dye's masterpiece can be had.
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