pettish

How To Use pettish In A Sentence

• For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
• He was a spoiled, pettish rich kid who worked mightily to destroy millions of dollars worth of equipment in the years before he was captured. A Word On McCain's Heroism And His Speech Tonight
• Then returning, half-smiling at his own pettishness, he said, ` ` Get thee into the house, Edie, and remember my counsel, never speak to me about a mine, nor to my nephew Hector about a phoca, that is The Antiquary
• Hong Hui the skill for deeding in pettish don't understand as well whom learn, four the elder brother is to again and again hurt afterward come.
• After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
• She had known for some time her brother was weak, that what her aunt had called innocence was really spoiled pettish childishness; that being a boy, the firstborn, and beautiful, Nate had always been the prince of his own tiny kingdom. Clockwork Angel
• The Lady Fleming restricted her notice to the most dry and distant expressions of civility, and Catherine Seyton became bitter in her pleasantries, and shy, cross, and pettish, in any intercourse they had together. The Abbot
• Therefore , occasionally male , can let the woman pettish exert her mother's side .
• `Only an outdated classic in which nobody's much interested,' said Mr Golightly, rather pettishly. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
• The teacher admitted punishing the child, although he denied that the punishment was inappropriate, and he suggested that ‘these children are very pettish in manner, and I have no doubt that they sometimes tell stories at home.’