Easily irritated or annoyed.
Quickly provoked or inflamed to anger.
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Examples for "petulant "
Examples for "petulant "
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.
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.
Capable of responding to stimuli.
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 .
6 Beyond the arras the steward and his lord were at irritable converse.
7 He found Sir Giles in an irritable and anxious state of mind.
8 The lingering traces of the poison seemed to make him oddly irritable .
9 Her irritable pride was touched at every turn; she hardly knew why.
10 She felt slightly irritable , and the grief of the servants annoyed her.
11 Toward the end of that summer she lost weight and became irritable .
12 Robert was jealous, irritable and revengeful; Charles was open-hearted, mild and forgiving.
13 The sea suffers like others, and when it suffers it is irritable .
14 He was nervous, irritable ; people bored him and yet he disliked solitude.
15 Genghis became more and more irritable until no one dared approach him.
16 I have lost weight and have a condition call irritable bowl syndrome.
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