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- Bennett: A
puzzling British exclamation"
World Wide
Words "Gordon Bennett!".
Peevish.co.uk.
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September 2017. "Gordon Bennett! – the
meaning and origin...
- Lyall,
Sarah (August 26, 1992). "At
Dinner With: Rob
Morrow – He's No
Peevish Dr. Fleischman, But He's at Home in
Bagel Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,
United States.
delectatio morosa peevish delight In
Catholic theology,
pleasure taken in a
sinful thought or imagination...
- Self-****ertive, unyielding, stubborn, steely, implacable, unrelenting, dyspeptic,
peevish, and
cranky stance;
legalistic and self-righteous;
discharges previously...
- and wrawnesse, the last
variously translated as "anger" or
better as "
peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin
consists of
languishing and
holding back,...
- by his
education and
Scottish upbringing, and he
dealt shortly with the
peevish legacy of
Elizabethan Puritanism,
pursuing an
eirenic religious policy...
-
being angry without cause, or
above cause, or in a proud, selfish, and
peevish manner."
Scott argues that
Christians should not
express anger in the "language...
- the
dreadful prospect of
never dying. They were not only opinionative,
peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but
incapable of friendship, and dead...
- that
narrowed Labour's
vision from
purposeful reform and investment, to
peevish and
petulant pragmatism." However, he
remained an
outspoken critic of the...
