pettish
Example Sentences
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Harrumphing and sneering as the Primms’ pettish downstairs neighbor, Gelman grates.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
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
Carousel sentimentalizes the redemptive power of parenthood for Billy, a pettish, self-pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I saw him once more engrossed with her, and, whatever I felt, I betrayed no sign of pettish jealousy.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Kavanagh, Julia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
