"peevishly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XI:",
          "text": "\"See / Or shut your eyes,\" said Nature peevishly, / \"It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.\"",
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          "ref": "1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2,1:",
          "text": "His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.",
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          "text": "Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, \"By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day.\"",
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        "In a peevish manner."
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          "roman": "vorčlívo",
          "sense": "in a peevish manner",
          "word": "ворчли́во"
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          "roman": "svarlívo",
          "sense": "in a peevish manner",
          "word": "сварли́во"
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      "roman": "vorčlívo",
      "sense": "in a peevish manner",
      "word": "ворчли́во"
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      "roman": "svarlívo",
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