Both Uses
petulant
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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- His manner at these moments was frigid and abstract; his eyes were vacant in expression; while his voice, usually a rich tenor, rose into a treble which would have sounded petulantly but for the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation.†
petulantly = with unreasonable anger or upset
- glancing, with a petulant expression
*petulant = unreasonably annoyed or upset
Definitions:
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(1)
(petulant) unreasonably annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)