Adjective:

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pettish's Usage Examples:

takes himself to be a wit"), and Sir Nicholas"s uncle Snarl ("an old, pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices.

Chicago-style Great-Books pedantry—a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades.

of "Lamia" confusing, and describing "St Agnes" as having a "sense of pettish disgust" and "a "Don Juan" style of mingling up sentiment and sneering".

adventurous, unfortunate coxcomb; one that by the help of humorous, nonsensical bywords takes himself to be a wit"), and Sir Nicholas"s uncle Snarl ("an old, pettish.

that purpose, and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D--n these plebeians, they don"t burn worth a cent—pass out a King ….

fine, sharp wit the narrow-mindedness and pettishness of the Pecks, she lavishes on them a tenderness that lifts them above satire….

introduction, had written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",.

Empfindlichkeit (the history of the sensibility, or: the story of the pettishness) a monumental cycle of novels.

While etching with a fine, sharp wit the narrow-mindedness and pettishness of the Pecks, she lavishes on them a tenderness that lifts them above.

Synonyms:

cranky, nettlesome, irritable, tetchy, petulant, peckish, testy, techy, ill-natured, scratchy, peevish, fractious,

Antonyms:

smooth, euphonious, easy, obedient, good-natured,