All 8 Uses of
petulant
in
The Shining
- There was a tiger in the hall, and now the tiger was just around the corner, still crying out in that shrill and petulant and lunatic rage, the roque mallet slamming, because this tiger walked on two legs and it was — He woke with a sudden indrawn gasp, sitting bolt upright in bed, eyes wide and staring into the darkness, hands crossed in front of his face.†
Chpt 3
- And suddenly Daddy had been wide awake, his eyes set deeply into their fat eyesockets, glittering with a kind of stupid, evil petulance.†
Chpt 4
- Because each man — " His father's voice, going up higher and higher, becoming something maddening, not human at all, something squealing and petulant and maddening, the voice of the Ghost-God, the Pig-God, coming dead at him out of the radio and "No!" he screamed back.†
Chpt 4
- And yet, paradoxically, it sounded weaker, slurred, petulant … as if he were drunk.†
Chpt 4
- The booming, the coarse and petulant voice, the blueblack rug like snakes?†
Chpt 4
- They had heard Daddy's batterings at the door all the way across the lobby, the batterings and his voice, hoarse and petulantly angry in a weak-king sort of a way, vomiting promises of punishment, vomiting profanity, promising both of them that they would live to regret betraying him after he had slaved his guts out for them over the years.†
Chpt 5
- There was nothing of the real Jack in that howling ... petulant voice, though.
Chpt 5 *petulant = unreasonably upset
- "Danny!" the hoarse, petulant voice roared from above them.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(petulant) unreasonably annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset