Adjective peevish has 1 sense
  1. cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
    Antonym: good-natured (indirect, via ill-natured)
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