All 4 Uses of
petulant
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- ' "Pooh!" said the apparition, petulantly, "no better than a man's killing himself because he has none or little."†
Chpt 6 *
- 'Oh I dare say, Miss La Creevy,' returned Mrs Nickleby, with a petulance not unnatural in her unhappy circumstances, 'it's very easy to say cheer up, but if you had as many occasions to cheer up as I have had—and there,' said Mrs Nickleby, stopping short.†
Chpt 33
- That through the utmost depths of poverty and affliction she had toiled, never turning aside for an instant from her task, never wearied by the petulant gloom of a sick man sustained by no consoling recollections of the past or hopes of the future; never repining for the comforts she had rejected, or bewailing the hard lot she had voluntarily incurred.†
Chpt 46
- 'You always believe,' returned her father, petulantly.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
-
(petulant) unreasonably annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset