petulance
Example Sentences
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Most of all, they are a risk for love, which ought not so soon to be so unpleasantly tested by the inevitable petulances of a secret ennui.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
He knew its every mood, its petulances and passions; he knew this glassy warmth and what it meant.
From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
He swept away from her petulances to the thing which was for the moment uppermost in his mind.
From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
But George was too deeply distressed for any petulances of anger.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles
She tried to hide amongst the cushions again, but visions of Gypsy, with her bright inquisitive eyes, her funny little petulances, her endearing cajoleries, kept rising before her.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
Vocabulary lists containing petulance
Tuck Everlasting
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Pygmalion
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