pettish
"I hate tea," said Lili pettishly.
She pettishly waved away the waiter who was bringing her coffee.
"You can't alter what you've done," he replied pettishly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bad-tempered
argumentative
bad-tempered
be hell on wheelsidiom
be like a bear with a sore headidiom
be spoiling for a fightidiom
grouchiness
grouchy
grumpily
grumpiness
grumpy
pettish
petulance
petulancy
petulant
petulantly
surlily
surliness
testily
testiness
testy

Examples of pettishly

pettishly
She shrugged her shoulders a little pettishly as she leaned back in the cab.
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Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating.
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Her eyes were still closed: she frowned and pouted pettishly.
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If he was to be a part of the ship's life, there was small sense in acting pettishly.
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She was just entering the drawing-room as she did so, and threw it down pettishly on a chair by the door; and, lo!
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Often he had called to her, in feverish complaint, or anger, or pettishly, like a child, but never in such a tone as this.
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She wrenched her arm away pettishly and, with sullen face, accompanied him to the camp.
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Not to do so would be pettishly self-cognizant.
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I pettishly asked why she did not call a domestic to do it.
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The beautiful girl in her white dress with the roses and myrtles in her small hand, turned her face away pettishly.
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She tore off her robe pettishly, flung out of her pajamas, and began to dress with angry determination.
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She spoke pettishly, with an impulse to exasperate.
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But she resisted, pulling away from him almost pettishly, shrinking from his touch.
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I pettishly asked her why she did not call a domestic to do it.
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But they were bound to please me in all practicable ways, so they informed me, although somewhat pettishly.
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