petulant

Example Sentences

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All this showy GOP outrage was obvious bad faith, even before Trump delivered his long and petulant speech at Saturday's rally.

From Salon

Her brightly colored, slightly wonky figures seem the work of a brilliant child; a bird alights on a branch with a shocked expression; a pig seems defiantly petulant.

From New York Times

Trump’s complaints directed at “the Doctors” kept coming back to the same charge — negativity — including a remarkable, petulant presidential Oval Office outburst roughly halfway through the book.

From Washington Post

Yes, he can erupt, shattering rackets, barking like a petulant child at himself, his coaches, umpires and peers.

From New York Times

There were lots of Republicans hemming and hawing, trying to walk the line between Trump's petulant refusal to accept his loss and the reality that they had to move on.

From Salon