8 Sentences With "pettishly"

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Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating.
Lady Cecily was cross and hurt, and she turned away pettishly.
Miss Bennett handed back the map and spoke somewhat pettishly from behind the handkerchief.
After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
Nemesio pettishly sticks to his hierarchical role as head of the family, and rejects Atanasio's entreaties for brotherly sympathy.
Somewhat pettishly, though no doubt with some truth, de Botton asserts that the chief executive's success will depend mostly on luck.
You can't alter what you've done,' he replied pettishly, shrinking from her, 'unless you alter it for the worse by teasing me into a fever.
A fervent believer as a boy, he broke with the church as an adolescent, pettishly refusing his mother's dying request that he make his confession and take Communion.