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Meanings of pettishness in English
Spanish
irritabilidad A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.
Synonyms
Examples for "temper"
Examples for "temper"
1
During the crisis in the Sudan, the popular temper was her own.
2
And I wish you'd go 'way, she said, her temper rising again.
3
People whose major concern is climate change have to temper their ambitions.
4
Franshion's large cash balance and its good financial flexibility temper this weakness.
5
Fanshion's large cash balance and its good financial flexibility temper this weakness.
1
Advances in the pharmacotherapy of irritability in ASD continue to inform practice.
2
Psychiatric adverse events comprised irritability, aggression, depression and psychosis in single cases.
3
But this afternoon it discovered an unusual vein of irritability in her.
4
It is due to what is called irritability or sensitiveness in plants.
5
With the crisis so near, irritability pricked Vaniman's state of nervous tension.
1
His mind was palsied with his body; its utmost energy was peevishness.
2
Fine. He couldn't prevent the peevishness that had crept into his voice.
3
A disordered, or an over-loaded stomach, is a frequent cause of peevishness.
4
My invalid peevishness, too, has accentuated my sensitiveness to shades of refinement.
5
Hoddan scowled at Don Loris, whose expression of peevishness did not lighten.
1
Already, despite her surliness, he feared she'd be disappointed if he left.
2
With my best effort at surliness I asked what we had done.
3
That along with the uncharacteristic surliness meant he was edgy as hell.
4
His relief expressed itself in a superficial surliness; but Edwin was not deceived.
5
We managed for months before surliness crept in and the project was abandoned.
1
They are of the very greatest value where there is any tendency toward biliousness.
2
There is more yellow in life from biliousness, than from the state of the atmosphere.
3
In many instances it causes biliousness, fermentation and constipation.
4
Although in the case of the sovereign pontiff, his biliousness was, to a degree, understandable.
5
Port knew from experience how acute is that form of biliousness which results from rage.
1
Why go along with crossness, and coldness and snappishness in your life?
2
Was that the reason for my snappishness at the ME's office?
3
Cursed snappishness to those under me, on a bodily indisposition.
4
Collette stared at me like I'd grown another head, and her snappishness came back.
5
This snappishness amazed and wounded the young man.
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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