pettish

How To Use pettish In A Sentence

• And he emerged from his prison the same spoiled, pettish rich kid, having tantrums, dumping his non-glossy crippled wife, etc., etc. A Word On McCain's Heroism And His Speech Tonight
• Rachel found Katherine, pettish from imagined neglect. Dearly Beloved
• He could also be volatile, pettish and confounding.
• And suddenly he went up to the boot, and, hooking the point of his umbrella under what was left of the toecap, flung it pettishly over the hedge. Swan Song
• Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office. Greener Than You Think
• Becoming George Sand" offers sketchy vignettes of Sand's excursion to Mallorca with the pettish and ailing composer Frédéric Chopin, but these scenes shed no light on Maria's problems, which are based not on passion but on lying. Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
• She had never seen the pettish side of his nature before.
• He thinks her little pettish ways are mere girlish moods; but when she becomes his wife, and reveals her selfish and cruel nature, he is grieved and hurt to think fate has been so unkind to him. Archive 2008-11-01
• With success came pressure, and it appears Henry could be pettish, as his correspondence often apologizes for being short-tempered, possibly because he and Belasco were now going away to get most of their work done and Beatrice felt left out. Empire of Dreams
• Your statement that all the suffragist arguments "were long ago refuted and sent to limbo" is a mere pettish assertion, quite incapable of proof.