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Meanings of
petulant
in inglés
Easily irritated or annoyed.
irritable
cranky
peevish
fractious
scratchy
testy
tetchy
pettish
peckish
techy
Related terms
ill-natured
Sinónimos
Examples for "
irritable
"
irritable
cranky
peevish
fractious
scratchy
Examples for "
irritable
"
1
The point is, that on this particular day the lieutenant was
irritable
.
2
Nivea's balm will soothe
irritable
skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
3
But I was in a state of mind bordering on the
irritable
.
4
In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was
irritable
and unjust.
5
Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly
irritable
.
1
His methods, once dismissed as
cranky
and left-field are now accepted practice.
2
Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me
cranky
.
3
She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her
cranky
.
4
He's
cranky
as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5
I was
cranky
thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1
So were the lieutenant and the
peevish
damsels in his Battleston car.
2
I am growing
peevish
-
and
tired
;
and will leave off writing for to-day.
3
We sat in the smoking-car, Hawkins by this time ill and
peevish
.
4
He that refused a pipe in company was accounted
peevish
and unsociable.
5
Walking towards the door, Alfred poured forth a torrent of
peevish
abuse:
1
Such talk usually generates
fractious
debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the
fractious
post-civil war days.
3
The public mood is now more
fractious
and hostile to established politics.
4
The
fractious
atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5
The incident adds another complication to
fractious
ties between the two countries.
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports,
scratchy
CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little
scratchy
blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and
scratchy
,
the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really
scratchy
.
5
But a hot,
scratchy
rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
1
The General began to turn a little
testy
as the constable finished.
2
She wasn't quite sure why she had been so
testy
with him.
3
Mr. Merrick left the office in a rather humbled and
testy
mood.
4
The fact that Tobe obviously recognized them only made him more
testy
.
5
There was real feeling in the
testy
old lady's face and voice.
1
It has been an inevitably
tetchy
beginning to the new Dáil term.
2
On the Monday night he was a bit
tetchy
,
a bit tired.
3
The
tetchy
Brit thawed out after a couple of bottles of wine.
4
A few
tetchy
exchanges between US and Colombian players in the aftermath.
5
Richard Eyre, a nice guy, confined himself to the odd
tetchy
postcard.
1
Consider the
pettish
,
they are angry with their best and dearest friends.
2
He turned on Sam with the
pettish
anger of the mild man.
3
Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a
pettish
push.
4
He was a bit
pettish
when he snapped his check book shut.
5
And he added with
pettish
emphasis, They're all alike, gentle and simple.
1
There's also a Continental food and craft market if you get
peckish
.
2
A
peckish
Saturn fresh run out of young, the town devours itself.
3
A fear rises up within him: he is starting to feel
peckish
.
4
Having survived your morning bath, you may be feeling a little
peckish
.
5
And with someone who closed their eyes and someone who was
peckish
.
1
You are the third
techy
audience that I have given this to.
2
BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and loopy,
techy
pop music is far from basic.
3
Climb thin cracks and a
techy
face, with stunning views of Mt.
4
So it's just a
techy
way of lighting the menu of our game.
5
Among the
techy
outfitting was a defibrillator and cooler-chest for donor organ transport.
1
Drummer had started crying, a
nettlesome
sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2
The most
nettlesome
issues for industry are security and accounting.
3
The timing involved in selling it, though, can be
nettlesome
.
4
A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations
nettlesome
.
5
This leads us to the
nettlesome
subject of authenticity.
Usage of
petulant
in inglés
1
Emphasising the feel good factor in Julian's
petulant
possessiveness is surely misguided.
2
Yvonne felt
petulant
toward these people she had liked only minutes before.
3
Lem knew he sounded
petulant
,
but he also knew he was right.
4
Corona was silent; it was her only weapon when he became
petulant
.
5
No longer
petulant
or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency.
6
He called himself a fool and went home in a
petulant
mood.
7
She was as
petulant
as a child; she felt like shedding tears.
8
And tomorrow, I'll start my new life as... She looked suddenly
petulant
.
9
Ford answered the
petulant
demand as one bears with a spoiled child.
10
Cigarette gave a little
petulant
twist to the tap of her wine-barrel.
11
The voice had now grown stronger, with a
petulant
tone through it.
12
She shrieked out, very much after the manner of a
petulant
child.
13
For all of his sixty-plus years he looked like a
petulant
child.
14
Then with a
petulant
mosquito whine the Nissan accelerated away into traffic.
15
And her tone was almost
petulant
as she refused to sing again.
16
She passed on and heard her husband's
petulant
voice in her ear.
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petulant
Adjective
Frequent collocations
petulant child
petulant voice
petulant tone
almost petulant
petulant gesture
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