pettish
adjective
petulantly peevish.
pettishness
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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
Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
These might charitably be explained as mere momentary ebullitions of pettishness or spleen, and pardonable as merely faults of temper in a criticism which was in the main conscientious and fair.
From A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel by Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Although she was by nature really obstinate, resolute, and persistent, she often exhibited upon the surface a childish pettishness with which her real self was almost absurdly at variance.
From A Bachelor's Dream by Duchess
There was a pretty pout of pettishness on her winsome face, and her eyes did not look altogether pleased.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
