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Menon's pettishness did nothing to help India's case.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Yet this pettishness, which left to itself would have seemed of little account,—hardly worth noticing, when fanned by Belle and Frances took on the aspect of jealousy.

From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Reed, Helen Leah

I laughed at his coldness; convinced, as I now was, that it was only the pettishness of jealousy.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

"It is altogether too coarse," said Fanny, with pretended pettishness.

From Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel by Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold