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Significats de pettish en anglès

Easily irritated or annoyed.

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      Ús de pettish en anglès
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      Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
      Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
      2
      He turned on Sam with the pettish anger of the mild man.
      The Little Nugget
      3
      Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a pettish push.
      Old Mr. Wiley
      4
      He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
      Joan of Arc of the North Woods
      5
      And he added with pettish emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
      Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
      6
      Her demeanor till then had been marked by tolerance, a bit pettish.
      The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
      7
      I'm foolish, I will own, to mind her little, pettish, fretful humours.
      The Two Wives; Or, Lost and Won
      8
      The answer sounded pettish: There are all sorts in a school like this.
      The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
      9
      Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office.
      Greener Than You Think
      10
      And he left the house in sorrow, and just, but not pettish, indignation.
      A Simpleton
      11
      Nor was there in this her conclusion anything of chagrin, or pettish self-humiliation.
      Weighed and Wanting
      12
      Amy had turned desperately pale, and in a pettish, trembling tone, she said:
      A Desperate Chance; Or, The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilli...
      13
      He gave a little half-pettish groan, and a stillness came over the room.
      The Grey Lady
      14
      No, but you have been, and I am very pettish, sometimes.
      For the Term of His Natural Life
      15
      Forgive my pettish speech of a moment since; you were right to reprove me.
      An Unwilling Maid / Being the History of Certain Episodes during...
      16
      The little chin was firm, but the mouth was pettish.
      The Path of the King
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