pettish
petulantly peevish: a pettish refusal.
Origin of pettish
1Other words from pettish
- pet·tish·ly, adverb
- pet·tish·ness, noun
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How to use pettish in a sentence
Then she raised the red-willow wand, and pettishly struck at the tall flowering head of a plant before her.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamBut Montagu took no notice of his sardonic harshness, and seated himself by his side, though Eric pettishly pushed him away.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar"Nothing, dame," said Margaret somewhat pettishly, and changing her posture so as rather to turn her back upon the kind inquirer.
The Fortunes of Nigel | Sir Walter ScottDevilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds!'
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensPeople who pettishly insisted upon these extremes of the game he sneeringly called golf lawyers.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for pettish
/ (ˈpɛtɪʃ) /
peevish; petulant: a pettish child
Origin of pettish
1Derived forms of pettish
- pettishly, adverb
- pettishness, noun
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