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Meanings of pettish in English

Easily irritated or annoyed.

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Usage of pettish in English
1
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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