affable vs peevish

affable

adj
  • Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable. 

  • Mild; benign. 

peevish

adj
  • Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross. 

  • Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous. 

  • Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful. 

How often have the words affable and peevish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )