pettish
Example Sentences
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Harrumphing and sneering as the Primms’ pettish downstairs neighbor, Gelman grates.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
The $196 million trade pact was abruptly canceled by Peking in a pettish squabble about a Chinese trade delegation's right to fly the Red flag in Tokyo.
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
With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a heightened colour he cleared his voice, and his answer, when it came, was dry and pettish.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
