pettishly

Examples of pettish

pettish
My aunt gave this last a few pettish, impatient moments of thought.
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She was a little pettish about it, poor woman!
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Such pettish quibbling is utterly unworthy of your good sense and ordinary candor.
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The pettish look had passed from her face; so also had the world-wise expression.
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And she whirled off, pettish, provoked, leaving the poor little fellow in his nervous state, lost in a sort of half-conscious misery.
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I can't put in the pettish shoulder wiggle that goes with it, or make my voice behave like his did.
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She turns away with a pettish gesture; then, after a lingering moment, he leaves her.
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These bursts of anguish were not the sudden gusts of a pettish woman's passion, but the settled sorrow of one who suffered without hope.
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I am afraid she is going to be pettish.
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The doctor turned away to his desk with the pettish gesture of a woman whose inner thoughts are not divined.
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Her demeanor till then had been marked by tolerance, a bit pettish.
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His insistence caused her to display more of her pettish resentment.
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He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
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The prettiest of the bondmaids gave her braids a pettish flirt.
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She had learned that long ago, and used it as a nurse does some old song to quiet her pettish infant.
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