petulance
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Alan Wolfe, a distinguished professor emeritus at Boston College and prolific scholar of American political thought, gives us “The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity.”
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2018
Petulance, intransigence, arrogance; basically, he was found guilty of being Steve Jobs.
From Inc • Oct. 5, 2011
The lady assumed the tone of Tranquillity soothing Petulance.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Read then the Man;—does Truth his Actions guide, Exempt from Petulance, exempt from Pride?
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
Petulance and querulousness too often supplanted the mental elasticity, which had counted for naught the roughnesses on the road to fame.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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