Gesturing exaggeratedly with his hand, he affected a peevish tone.

"I haven't seen you for a long time," Tirel said in peevish tones.

The voice was very high-pitched and shrill, its tone not only peevish but also full of reproach and anger.

The peevish tone was back again, and Stu was inclined to believe him.

Valentina said; summing up the situation in much the way Adele would've done herself, and in an equally peevish tone.

'I still don't understand what all the fuss is about,' Ellen replied in a slightly peevish tone.

"I suppose not," he said in a peevish tone.

Or, in a slightly peevish tone, "But why are you buying them if they hurt?"

You could hear the girl's tiredness and hunger in her peevish tones.

At another point, he took on a peevish tone when asked about Democratic measures in Congress to censure him for his secret surveillance program.