pettishness
- a word derived from pettish.
Example Sentences
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Menon's pettishness did nothing to help India's case.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had begun to lose the childish pettishness of her earlier years.
From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Reed, Helen Leah
"He hasn't time to call on anybody," Flossy said, with a mixture of pride, and a sort of comic pettishness.
From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy
“Grey Stuart is very careless about such things,” said Helen, with languid pettishness.
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
This, together with her very human pettishness, complicated the social problem.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
