Both Uses of
petulant
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- 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.†
Scene 4 *petulantly = with unreasonable anger or upset
- You kept your eyes upon the ground—glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine, which has been paved, by way of experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.†
Scene 4
Definition:
unreasonably annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset