pettish
Example Sentences
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Harrumphing and sneering as the Primms’ pettish downstairs neighbor, Gelman grates.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
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
Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire French press was pettish over the fact that Germany has said no official "Thank You" to France for evacuating the Rhineland.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would lay any wager that some thing has gone wrong with her dressing, to-night, and so made her pettish.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
