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Harrumphing and sneering as the Primms’ pettish downstairs neighbor, Gelman grates.

It led many longtime Jewish Labour stalwarts to quit the Party, and it was italicized by many instances of Corbyn tolerating acts or statements indifferent to or hostile to Jews, and by his pettish refusal to offer an apology that was not self-evidently forced and reluctant.

The same temptation is evident when Alter defends God’s words after he has allowed all of Job’s children to be murdered as part of what amounts to a pettish bet with the Adversary, Satan.

On an international stage, Pence made America look small with his pettish behavior.

Netanyahu’s campaign advertisements, on the other hand, cast the prime minister as the only adult in a collapsing coalition government filled with pettish, quarrelsome kindergarteners — more fodder for “A Wonderful Land.”