pettish
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Pettish critics have sometimes said that reading Jules Remains' serial novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct.
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Pettish she is, certainly, but oh, signore, lovely, lovely, like un angiolin'!
From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
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