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1. He told me so, peevishly, when I interviewed him.
2. Pigeon was delegated to perch peevishly and stare at the kitchen window.
3. "For Nasser read Hitler and it‘s all very familiar," the prime minister scrawled peevishly across an FO telegram in 1'63.
4. The latter is why, to my regret, I peevishly ignored my Yiddish–speaking grandmother, adamantly insisting she speak English.
5. Anyway, we enjoy making the United States. angry now because we still peevishly resent the way triumphalist Americans treated us after the Cold War –– like two–bit losers.