Adjective : a pettish refusal.    From Dictionary.com. 

Young birds called pettishly for food from the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

"K.!" she called pettishly from her door.    From Wordnik.com.  [K] Reference

"It's an impossibility!" she exclaimed, pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference

"Why didn't you bring her?" he demanded pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and The Redskins]

"The books are always gone," said Louis, pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

‘Hang a light sleeper!’ exclaimed Jonas pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference

“Of course I do,” he said pettishly, troubling only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

“How you scared me, Marsh!” she exclaimed pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

“This is getting us nowhere!” said the King pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

'Pooh!' said Miss Belmont, pettishly drawing back from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

"You're too blamed sure," replied the contractor pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

Mrs. Selwyn tossed the price-list pettishly on to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Mary pulled herself pettishly from Marjorie's clinging arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

‘I shall never get another!’ said Mrs. Corney, pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

"You say that every day, Edith," answered the child pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference

"I don't know," sighed the girl, half wearily, half pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

"Always talking about grapes and figs!" cried Pandora, pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

"I wonder you did not propose a balloon," she continued pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

Entering the dining-room he pettishly snatched off the dish-cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

He looked round the room pettishly, like a schoolboy out of temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

"You're too bad entirely!" exclaimed Mrs Gilmour a little pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

"Don't gabble at me in that strange tongue," Hugh returned pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Labyrinth]

"For pity's sake, I think it's about time," the wife began pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

“I tell you there was nothing at all,” she declared, nervously and pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

"Oh, what nonsense!" jeered Mrs. Wickham, throwing herself pettishly into a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Promise] Reference

"I never saw so many people in such a hurry in my life," declared Nellie pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

"Don't speak to me -- I'm civilization!" the figure made answer, somewhat pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

"Only the good of doing your poor sister a kindness," she said bitterly and pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

"Yes, you are," said Little Birdie, pettishly; "nothing seems to engage your attention.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference

I had much better have agreed to his account -- much better, 'he added, almost pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The doctor said rather pettishly, ‘I don’t know why you keep on about him looking ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

"But, Mother," very pettishly said the boy, "you are sick all the time -- how do you know?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer] Reference

"You can't have me," said Deleah, pettishly, and feeling more hopelessly inadequate than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Altering the position of his newspaper for the tenth time, he was pettishly moved to complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

"You should not have turned that light on me," objected the other dark figure rather pettishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

"You hurt, Sophie, you hurt," cried Bunny pettishly, as the maid combed out her long fair hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children] Reference