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 $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
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
He left office with a reputation as the pettish, totally unamiable author of some of the world's most elephantine prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, I do," was the pettish reply, "and a very disagreeable inmate he was.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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