Adjective : a pettish refusal. From Dictionary.com.
Arline drew away from her with a pettish little shrug. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
Rachel found Katherine, pettish from imagined neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved] Reference
Ephraim was always gentle, even when I was pettish and cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
As it was, Conan's ominous warning glare only roused him to pettish fury. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
"My dear Phil, how original you are!" broke in Eleanor, with a pettish gesture. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
The lady frowned and looked toward the Judge with a pettish movement of the head. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The pettish look had passed from her face; so also had the world-wise expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
"No, he won't," she snapped, tossing her fringe with a pettish shake of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Last April Fair]
Such pettish quibbling is utterly unworthy of your good sense and ordinary candor. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Raglan's face lengthened, and I saw an almost pettish set to his mouth as he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
His voice was hoarse and pettish, and the eyes he turned on her were bloodshot and watering. From Wordnik.com. [The Count's Blackmail Bargain]
He wanted to ask his pettish sister a question, but evidently did not know how to go about it. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
But no; a few days later Nancy was quite pettish about the preparation Miss Marlowe had set them. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
He gets quite pettish — and after having had it out every morning for years, it does seem funny. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
She had learned that long ago, and used it as a nurse does some old song to quiet her pettish infant. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Most of de chillun slept on pallets on de floor, but I slept wid my Pa and Ma 'cause I was so pettish. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
She jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, though in his pettish mood he tried to hold her off. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
"I am tired of merry times, and don't care if I never have any more!" answered our pettish little Pandora. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
For she attributed his present mood of pettish aversion wholly to the fact of his being run down in health. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
‘Well, say no more about it, Sir Condy,’ said my lady, pettish-like; ‘I was a child then, you know.’. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Rackrent] Reference
The spiteful, pettish face was for the moment ennobled by the reflected glory of another's goodness and love. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
But there was nothing pettish about the look he flicked at Arrhae; it was both a promise and a veiled threat. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
The voice was pettish, but the listener was not slow to catch a tremor of discomfort under its attempted loftiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Ruth gave several sharp and pettish replies to their inquiries, and was rallied upon her silence and her grave face. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin] Reference
When I am feeling a tad pettish, reading someone else's tetchy rant can make me feel, if not good, then certainly better. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday morning edition] Reference
My father, as any body may naturally imagine, came down with my mother into the country, in but a pettish kind of a humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Netta, with her changing colour, and half-pettish, half-shy manner, was still more attractive than Netta affected and silly. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Tasmin felt a deepening anger at her father, who was grumbling and pettish because he was not allowed to hunt with his new guns. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
He turned on Sam with the pettish anger of the mild man. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Nugget] Reference
Reck I as were that stroke from a woman or some pettish infant. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
'You must help it, Mother,' said Alfred, in his most pettish tones. From Wordnik.com. [Friarswood Post Office] Reference
His insistence caused her to display more of her pettish resentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
He grew more pettish and dissatisfied, and frequently acted towards her with great unkindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
He gets quite pettish -- and after having had it out every morning for years, it does seem funny. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
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