An irritable petulant feeling.
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.
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Examples for "petulance "
Examples for "petulance "
1 All the weakness of his moral nature came out in his petulance .
2 Joan did not smile at the feeble petulance of the half-distracted woman.
3 Waste no time in passion and petulance - think only of your forfeited soul.
4 For the first time there sounded a petulance in the girl's voice.
5 All the petulance was gone from her expression-therestlessness from her manner.
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 And then the choler and the hot blood of his youth spoke.
2 Choleric he was, with the superficial and temporary choler of the schoolmaster.
3 Edward was choleric and stern in his choler , but judicious and politic.
4 I had had two years of color, choler , and passion in Karhide.
5 Sir Giles, who had some difficulty in controlling his choler , now spoke:-
1 Her weak fretfulness depressed all the vitalities near her; only Hester resisted.
2 She watched critically to see whether the cigar-light was puffed in fretfulness .
3 I think many artists operate from this pit of worry and fretfulness .
4 There is not a line on it of care or of fretfulness .
5 He had slipped into his more familiar suit of fretfulness and timidity.
1 There was a distinct air of crossness about Laurie at this moment.
2 Why go along with crossness , and coldness and snappishness in your life?
3 She set it all down to what she was wont to call crossness .
4 Mrs. Moira ignored the edge of crossness in her Danny's voice.
5 Her voice betrayed a struggle between offended dignity and decided crossness .
1 In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2 This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her.
3 We may grant that the fussiness of Sinclair told against his proposals.
4 She was all plump and giddy fussiness -innocentand full of frivolity.
5 Ashamed of his own fussiness , the Master went back to his work.
Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.
Excessive response to stimuli.
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.
6 Symptoms of PMS include mood swings, breast tenderness, fatigue, irritability and depression.
7 Of course the usual American relief of irritability and impatience suggested itself.
8 Arthur spoke sullenly; a curious, nervous irritability was taking possession of him.
9 The crusty irritability that had always poisoned their relationship was suddenly gone.
10 Signs of withdrawal syndrome can include convulsions, irritability , abnormal crying and tremor.
11 Prevalence of mixed episodes or irritability did not differ significantly between groups.
12 Finally, out of nervous irritability , I looked up the Body Artist's website.
13 Gastrointestinal irritability was noted in three patients and coincided with elevated γδT-cells.
14 Naturally rash and impetuous, the irritability of his temper preyed on itself.
15 And yet the nervous excitability, and even irritability , of musicians is proverbial.
16 But before he could say more she burst out with growing irritability :
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