How To Use petulance In A Sentence
- And stranger than all was that, now that he did see that she was lost in love of him, there came to him, not sorrow and humility and abasement, but something else that he struggled in vain against -- something entirely strange and new, that, had he analysed it, he would have found to be petulance and irritation and resentment and ungentleness. Widdershins
- His reaction, between petulance and rage, spoke volumes. Times, Sunday Times
- It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. Chapter XLIV
- Exhibiting a petulance last season, it has been alleged that he would throw tantrums if substituted in youth matches.
- His fitful petulance, his unsuccessful attempts to take control, his complete incomprehension of adult assumptions and mores.
- Leo sprang to his feet with an expression of petulance at yet another interruption. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
- Peter Frechette plays Peter as emerging into manhood from a scruffy, boyish petulance.
- He owns, however, that the vivacity of the French degenerates into petulance among foreigners, (p. 488.) and vain loquaciousness, (p. 9 Per viam quam jamdudum Carolus The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
- Frustrations, particularly those created by what he perceives as unjust treatment from match officials, can induce paranoid reactions that are too riddled with foul-mouthed bitterness to be euphemised as boyish petulance.