pettish
Example Sentences
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Harrumphing and sneering as the Primms’ pettish downstairs neighbor, Gelman grates.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
The entire French press was pettish over the fact that Germany has said no official "Thank You" to France for evacuating the Rhineland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carousel sentimentalizes the redemptive power of parenthood for Billy, a pettish, self-pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The $196 million trade pact was abruptly canceled by Peking in a pettish squabble about a Chinese trade delegation's right to fly the Red flag in Tokyo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agla�, therefore, on the advent of the conciliatory marquise, made a pettish movement of studied impertinence, and yawned slowly in her face like a dyspeptic hippopotamus.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
