Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sauciness; wantonness; rudeness.
- noun The character of being petulant; a petulant character or disposition; peevish impatience or caprice; pettishness.
- noun Synonyms See
captious and petulant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
petulant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an irritable petulant feeling
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Examples
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Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right?
"That's one of the things that really bugs me about religion." M-mv 2004
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Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right?
Archive 2004-10-01 M-mv 2004
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I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.
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I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.
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I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.
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I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.
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SCHULZ: In what can only be characterized as petulance the Bush administration vented its displeasure with France for its opposition to military action in Iraq by opposing an increase in the level of the French-led U.N. peacekeeping effort in Ivory Coast.
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That candidate wasn't establishment by any means, but the petulance is the same.
Pajamas Media Bryan Preston 2010
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Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto?
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Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto?
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