All 5 Uses
petulant
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Brideshead Revisited
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- A more sensitive man would have seen that he had failed to be impressive; perhaps he saw, for he added in a petulant schoolmasterish way: "All I ask is loyal cooperation."†
p. 14.4 *
- After a long pause he said petulantly, "I don't keep asking you questions about your family."†
p. 42.1petulantly = with unreasonable anger or upset
- Why," he repeated petulantly, "should alpine scenery be thought conducive to study?"†
p. 69.8
- Take me out of myself," petulantly, "tell me all about the new plays."†
p. 72.8
- We walked round the house; under the limes Julia paused and idly snapped off one of the long shoots, last year's growth, that fringed their boles, and stripped it as she walked, making a switch, as children do, but with petulant movements that were not a child's, snatching nervously at the leaves and crumbling them between her fingers; she began peeling the bark, scratching it with her nails.†
p. 334.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(petulant) unreasonably annoyed or upset
or:
easily annoyed or upset - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)