How To Use Pettish In A Sentence
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For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
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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
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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
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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.
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After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
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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
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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
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Therefore , occasionally male , can let the woman pettish exert her mother's side .
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`Only an outdated classic in which nobody's much interested,' said Mr Golightly, rather pettishly.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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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.’
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Happily, this wayward and pettish, I will not call it disloyal spirit, has passed away, and most of the "Annexationists" are now heartily ashamed of their conduct.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Rachel found Katherine, pettish from imagined neglect.
Dearly Beloved
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Raglan's face lengthened, and I saw an almost pettish set to his mouth as he said:
The Sky Writer
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Your statement that all the suffragist arguments "were long ago refuted and sent to limbo" is a mere pettish assertion, quite incapable of proof.
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With success came pressure, and it appears Henry could be pettish, as his correspondence often apologizes for being short-tempered, possibly because he and Belasco were now going away to get most of their work done and Beatrice felt left out.
Empire of Dreams
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He thinks her little pettish ways are mere girlish moods; but when she becomes his wife, and reveals her selfish and cruel nature, he is grieved and hurt to think fate has been so unkind to him.
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She had never seen the pettish side of his nature before.
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Becoming George Sand" offers sketchy vignettes of Sand's excursion to Mallorca with the pettish and ailing composer Frédéric Chopin, but these scenes shed no light on Maria's problems, which are based not on passion but on lying.
Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
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Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office.
Greener Than You Think
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And he emerged from his prison the same spoiled, pettish rich kid, having tantrums, dumping his non-glossy crippled wife, etc., etc.
A Word On McCain's Heroism And His Speech Tonight
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And suddenly he went up to the boot, and, hooking the point of his umbrella under what was left of the toecap, flung it pettishly over the hedge.
Swan Song
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He could also be volatile, pettish and confounding.