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
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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
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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
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If I were you, Daisy, I would not cry in that pettish way, but I would give up a foolish feeling, and try and mend.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Kavanagh, Julia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.