peevishness

例句:

• Peevishness...wears out happiness by slow corrosion.
  来自fig.
• Peevishness...is much oftener...the child of vanity and nursling of ignorance.
  来自S. Johnson
• He complained with characteristic peevishness.
  他一如既往，气呼呼地埋怨着。
  
• Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.
  怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄.
  
• Be gentle In old age ; peevishness are worse second childhood than In first.
  老来要和蔼; 第二幼年期的乖戾暴躁,更有甚于第一期.