Sentence example with the word 'pettish'

pettish

Definition adj. easily irritated or annoyed

Last update: June 24, 2015


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The child was of pettish nature.   [Please select]

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And he added with pettish emphasis, "They're all alike, gentle and simple."'   [Please select]

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Still holding it, Tristram leant back and stared; and as he stared a pettish anger took him.   [Please select]

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Alternately spoiled and crossed, he learned to be exacting, unreasonable, absurd in his pettish resentments or brooding sullenness.   [Please select]

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Adults individually often become pettish, or peevish, and threaten to prod their keepers without cause, but I have never known a keeper to take those lapses seriously.   [Please select]

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The pettish way in which she slapped down the plates, hustled the cups, and cut the big brown loaf, as she related her girlish trials and ambitions, was capital.   [Please select]

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