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Meanings of petulance in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "irritability"
Examples for "irritability"
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
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.
Usage of petulance in английском
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-thinkonly 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.
6
McLaren don't do petulance, so any helmet-throwing will be behind smoked glass.
7
This petulance continued long after the nurse had returned with his tray.
8
In this emergency Henry displayed no petulance, no striving against unchangeable circumstance.
9
She looked up at me with a slight frown of repressed petulance.
10
They are harried by fReemade who raid with what seems rampaging petulance.
11
Never was there such beautiful moralizing, equally free from pedantry or petulance.
12
But, accustomed to her changing moods and frequent petulance, she answered, quietly:
13
She saw his face redden as anger took the place of petulance.
14
I wish you wouldn't talk like that,' she answered with pretty petulance.
15
Hence my petulance and impatience while in the presence of your noble General.
16
Whether or not he is sanctioned for his petulance remains to be seen.
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Petulance through the time
Petulance across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common