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Meanings of pettishness in English
Spanish
irritabilidad A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.
Usage of pettishness in English
1
For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
2
This, together with her very human pettishness, complicated the social problem.
3
At this I broke out in all a sick man's pettishness.
4
She turned her back on him, then suddenly smarted at her own pettishness.
5
He ignored Hyacinth's resentment, endured her pettishness, and was studiously polite to her.
6
She replied in the affirmative, but with some little pettishness.
7
Her shyness, exclusiveness, pettishness, and ignorance are delicious in the rosy girl of sixteen.
8
Vanity, pride, self-importance, masterfulness, pettishness get full play among us.
9
He had seen her in moods that varied from feminine pettishness to the teasingly mischievous.
10
This pettishness amused me so much that I pretended to be a little sore myself.
11
There are marks of pettishness, but not of passion.
12
For a little half-playful pettishness was she to be visited with a punishment like this?
13
The compulsion was exasperating, and the great man scrawled with all the pettishness of a child.
14
You know quite well, Ariadne, that I have not an ounce of pettishness in my disposition.
15
Her argument with Guy now seemed only pettishness.
16
Heliodora, to whom the speech was addressed, affected to smile as in lofty tolerance of infantine pettishness.
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