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There to stay, tucked back in some recess of my brain, petulant, an ever-nagging reminder of having been Isabel.
OPINION | BEING ISABELISAAC AMENDJUNE 14, 2021WASHINGTON BLADE"It is very tiresome," said Ethel, nearly convinced, but in a slightly petulant voice.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGENow there was something half tired, half petulant, and wholly puzzled about her face as she swept into the room.
A BUTTERFLY ON THE WHEELCYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULLThey are petulant, capricious, and despite their apparent energy they accomplish nothing.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYWith a noisy, petulant fluttering of foliage the bushes sprang back to their former position.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAMHe noted, too, that her gorgeous ash-blond hair had been carefully "done," piled in high masses above her petulant face.
THE WINNING CLUEJAMES HAY, JR.My brother's fears were that the Opposition might be petulant.
MEMOIRS OF THE COURTS AND CABINETS OF GEORGE THE THIRDTHE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOSA petulant cry from Molly expressed her own desires exactly.
DOROTHY'S TRAVELSEVELYN RAYMONDThere are moments when the modern student of Vedic myths is inclined to echo this petulant complaint.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANGThe Grecians, says Casaubon, had formerly done the same, in the persons of their petulant Satyrs.
DRYDEN'S WORKS (13 OF 18): TRANSLATIONS; PASTORALSJOHN DRYDENWORDS RELATED TO PETULANT
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.