How To Use Petulant In A Sentence
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To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces.
Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
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He was petulant all day and was earlier booked for mouthing-off at the referee.
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Quite often when I'm driving somewhere on my own, my cell phone will start vibrating with repeated texts coming in and when I finally get home (we rent a condo together) she will petulantly ask me why I did not respond to her texts and I'll simply reply with "… because I was * driving*??" and stare at her like she's on drugs.
Rachel Lucas
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But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least.
Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
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To the long-running, uncomfortable faux lovers 'quarrels with Simon Cowell and his equally embarrassing interviews with the singers, he has now added an arsenal of odd behaviors, ranging from petulant snits to flighty overexuberance.
It's time for producers to fix 'American Idol,' and here's how
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A petulant man-child with scrunched fists, no sense of natural rhythm and his vision permanently obscured by a single greasy dreadlock.
Dancing On Ice: Grace Dent's TV OD
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He thought she was the petulant rock star and she thought he was this stuffy old luvvie.
Times, Sunday Times
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He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate.
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He likens it to a marriage, spiked with petulant tiffs, where affection has cooled into mutual respect and where the partners are increasingly living apart together.
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Good sense tells me: don't write petulant first-person columns to the CHE as an outraged fat PhD in urban studies who didn't get a job at Ivy last year, especially not a column that highlights the role of that blond hosebag who was especially snotty during my interview.
Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number
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And admit it, petulant is NOT a word that you would have in your vocabulary.
Think Progress » Condi Throws Stones From Her Glass House
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To call him petulant is kind of like the pot calling the kettle black.
MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
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[3369] Garcaeus, dabimus hoc petulantibus ingeniis, we will in some cases allow: or let him make an ephemerides, read Suisset the calculator's works,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Waaa-al I dunno, Kerry seems to have read a few books and done some thinking since graduation, Bush on the other hand scowls petulantly and cannot use the word "dissemble" correctly in a sentence - a challenge that my eleven year old niece would sneer at.
The Chimes at Midnight
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Three days after the Prime Minister's petulant sneer that only reactionary twits claim education standards have fallen comes pretty devastating evidence that this is indeed the case.
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Without such exercise, and good sense over and above, a man who has studied logic all his life may, after all, be only a petulant wrangler, without true judgment or skill of reasoning in any science.
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Instead they are engaging in petulant revenge canceling even national security hearings just to give the Democrats, and the American people, the finger.
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Never Took Yes for an Answer
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But there are some parts of him that are just arrogant and petulant.
Times, Sunday Times
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And its understanding would help free future generations from stupid orthodoxies of all sorts: “the jack-in-office, the pompous official, the petulant commander, the ignorant pedagogue.”
Parasite Rex
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His boasting and anger still had that sullen petulant edge.
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He frowned, and the handsome face clouded momentarily, petulant as a child's.
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She's as assertive and capable as he is petulant and out of his element.
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Jeter, pouting and petulant, stamped his feet and flung his hat around in the dugout.
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I would not that you should hold the _riata_," said Consuelo petulantly.
Short Stories of Various Types
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You just have to look at the pose: this is not a petulant man caught in an unguarded moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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His reputation is that he's only interested in winning and that he's a petulant loser.
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An immature and petulant display by the centre-back cost his side dear as the game progressed.
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He thought she was the petulant rock star and she thought he was this stuffy old luvvie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or demand and effect nothing and yet again stumble into petulant seething marginalized mobs.
Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson)
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Like a petulant child you indulged your temper, but you did so using that most dangerous of weapons, a car.
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Or did you just pretend to miss it, because it feels SO DAMN GOOD to engage in petulant shrieking?
Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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Iaina pouted, resembling a petulant child instead of the full grown woman she was.
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The gruff, strangulated tones seemed to reflect the woman's petulant desires and suffocated potential, making her initially quite grotesque but ultimately deeply sympathetic.
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My conclusion is that Steven Sande is a petulant baby.
The Problems With A Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out | Lifehacker Australia
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Viljoen SC called Mosotho lawyer Kananelo Mosito a "petulant adolescent".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In some cases, the antagonism seemed petulant and self-interested, and sometimes it was fuelled by genuine moral outrage.
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The vexation was a real one, but this is the language of a petulant invalid, of a man to whom the grasshopper has become a burden.
Raleigh
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There were many, misled by her petulant lips and watchful eyes, to call her sulky: these did not judge her silence favourably.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
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It's all because I am consumed by trying to make it work right away, like some petulant child.
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a petulant blase air
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Castor shook them both vigorously and they protested with petulant whines and complaining moans.
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Now he is just a petulant, spoilt brat.
The Sun
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Indeed it's been nearly a full week since the cowardly hate-mongering "satirist" Coulter posted Cornell's private information on the front page of her website in petulant retaliation for an article Cornell wrote here on BRAD BLOG.
"So You're the Little Woman Who Wrote the Blogpost That Started This Great War."
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It is petulantly impervious to innovation or the very idea of gustatory progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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'He's repellent!' the petulant nerk hissed, stamping his foot.
The Vatican Rip
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I can also become unpleasant and then behave like a petulant child.
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What he said was petulant and childish.
The Sun
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He sounded shrill and petulant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mattie had come in like some petulant kid and thrown himself in a corner.
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His critics say he's just being silly and petulant.
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In my study of the wholly babble, I think people have it wrong. the gawd described in the babble is hateful, vindictive, and petulant.
Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment
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I don't think he is saying that all Hillary supporters are "brainwashed" - just the ones who are petulantly threatening to vote Republican if their horse doesn't win.
Poll: Clinton Ahead By Six Points In Pennsylvania
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He had his arms folded and was sneering like a petulant brat.
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The sooner the GOP goes extinct the better and instead of an elephant, the GOP logo should be a petulant, diapered and red faced 2 year old in a room of smashed toys.
Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews
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No; nor will she miss now, " cries The Vengeance, petulantly.
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Democrito saltem affinis, aut ejus Genium vel tantillum sapiat; actum de te, censorem aeque ac delatorem [817] aget econtra (petulanti splene cum sit) sufflabit te in jocos, comminuet in sales, addo etiam, et deo risui te sacrificabit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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She was, as always, impeccably groomed and quite beautiful, but a petulant expression on her face marred her good looks slightly.
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All the players are in place: silent, petulant Bush demanding not to be questioned because he's the Decider; Dick Cheney is the Enforcer, twisting senators 'arms and breathing his brimstone in their faces (any time you see "jawbone" used as a verb, you know Cheney must be in the vicinity); an appointee of the executive testifying to the need for a radical consolidation of power in one agency, a la Ashcroft 2001.
Pete Cenedella: Disaster Movie 2: If You Liked the Patriot Act, You'll Love BAILOUT!
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In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child.
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Yes, they were petulant crybabies who whined until they got what they wanted.
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Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
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This all makes for incredibly depressing viewing, not helped by her petulant, sulky, scowling presence.
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Jones declined to characterize Astro as "arrogant," saying he might use the term "petulant" instead.
NYDN Rss
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Last week's barrage of five nearly successful antimanagement proposals at the annual meeting in Atlanta looked like a petulant mimic of the recent slap at General Motors 'execs.
Sears Under Siege
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Her tone of voice became abrupt and petulant.
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They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers.
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Well, he didn't invite me to his party so I'm certainly not inviting him to mine!" she said petulantly.
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Another aspect of Caravaggio's past persists in ‘The Young St John’ in the Borghese Gallery: a petulant urchin, speckled with sun-rash, and with an effeminate moue on his face as a ram curves and stretches against his pliant body.
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It was a needless and petulant foul.
The Sun
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The islands show dimly grey amid a welter of grey water, breaking angrily in short, petulant seas, which buffet boats confusedly and put the helmsmen's skill to a high test.
Priscilla's Spies
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He seems able in his batting and in his captaincy to put much of the past behind him, and to avoid touchy or petulant reactions.
Times, Sunday Times
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It should have been a good line, but he sounded like a petulant drone with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
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I was made to feel like a petulant child who has flown into a temper because his favorite toy was removed.
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At the same time, he was given to sobbing and rages like a petulant child.
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Which brings me, by a circumlocutory route to be sure, to some recent eruptions about yours truly by that petulant chihuahua Kathy Shaidle.
Archive 2008-05-01
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By midnight, he was pouting like a petulant kid being kept after school.
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Sometimes she reminds me of a petulant child holding its breath to get its way.
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Impudenter so masculorum aspectibus exponunt, insolenter comas jactantes, trahunt tunicas pedibus collidentes, oculoque petulanti, risu effuso, ad tripudium insanientes, omnem adolescentum intemperantiam in se provocantes, inque in templis memoriae martyrum consecratis; pomoerium civitatis officinam fecerunt impudentiae.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns, and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop, and every species of convenience, and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.
VI. English Traits. Manners
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Although beautifully shot, the film is crippled by its sluggish pace, and it is difficult to muster much sympathy for the petulant, sulky Ishmael.
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Jacquelyn nicknamed him Spike, in recognition of his petulant, fiery nature, which his four younger siblings apparently found considerably irksome.
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The parson was as effusive in his attentions as circumstance would allow, but Emilia petulantly resisted them.
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By day four, I had melted into a slothful recluse: soul and body atrophying, hair matted, bed unmade, depressed and petulant - a real joy.
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The petulant whine made it easy to identify Faunella as the speaker.
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They were so refreshing compared to the petulant teenagers she was around all morning.
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They can dish it out by the bucketful, but when it comes to getting some back, they're childish, petulant, and vindictive.
The Dangers of Snark
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But what is harder to condone than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats.
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A trace of a smile lifted the corners of her full lips and the petulant droop disappeared.
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I was made to feel like a petulant child who has flown into a temper because his favorite toy was removed.
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He was angry, while the organisers made plain their unhappiness at what they saw as a petulant show of defiance.
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Well, he didn't invite me to his party so I'm certainly not inviting him to mine!" she said petulantly.
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As a result, they can find emotional situations more confusing, leading to the petulant, huffy behaviour adolescents are notorious for.
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But the disease confounded everyone, vanishing in petulant defiance of all the elaborate preparations which had been made to accommodate it.
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He can be petulant, and there have been surly exchanges with fans.
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The car search rolls on, and I tell you, I'm feeling mighty petulant about it.
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You just have to look at the pose: this is not a petulant man caught in an unguarded moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film reveals him as a petulant child, given absolute authority!
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We hear of reformed drunkards, and reformed thieves; and _why may not a petulant temper be reformed_, but a system of total abstinence from all harsh, unkind moods and expressions?
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
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He sounded shrill and petulant.
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He sounded shrill and petulant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Berkshire, and not far removed from the great highway leading from Bath to London, lies the farmery where this restless, petulant, suffering, earnest, clear-sighted Tull put down the burden of life, a hundred and twenty years ago.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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If women at the top look this petulant and this paranoid, think how women feel on the many rungs below.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was drunk and lairy, red-faced and petulant.
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He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way.
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I cycled off, leaving him to glower after me like a petulant teenager.
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He did not protest beyond presently a transient frown as at a bad taste on his tongue, and a rather petulant objection to her use of analogies, which he called the sapping of language.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.
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Smuts petulantly resigned without consulting his cabinet or caucus and went to the country to save it, he said, from Moscow and a backveld republic.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 13
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P petulant in expression plead in vain pleasing in outline plunged in darkness positive in judgment practical in application pride in success protest in vain pursued in leisure
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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They can simultaneously be revered as heroes on the park and behave like petulant children in the street.
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Sophy snatched at the doll petulantly, and made what the French call a moue at the good man as she suffered her grandfather to replace her on the sofa.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
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On one level, this declaration might seem jejune, petulant.
Christianity Today
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You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients.
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But now he was behaving like a petulant child and she simply could not imagine what had gotten into him.
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His critics say he's just being silly and petulant.
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You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
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Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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On Wednesday their successors can lie down in a petulant sulk and lick their wounds or they can stand up and fight.
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This may widely be dismissed as a petulant spat but it raises significant issues about the sensitivities inherent in coverage of this sport.
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Though personally brave, he was petulant and totally lacking in judgement - a mere shooting star.
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With hindsight it all seemed more vengeful than petulant.
Times, Sunday Times
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So Midland, plainly put, you think we should spend money on killing people for the political benefit of the Democratic party, and that anyone who objects to this calculus is a petulant child?
Matthew Yglesias » The War
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To the petulant outbreaks on this question of the professors of "bunkum" which some of the latest accounts tell us have not been wanting, even in the comparatively sedate discussions of the Senate, we attached little weight, for we believed they were no longer in accordance with the feeling of the
Prospects of the Year
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This answer tends to cause headscratching among both camps, so I often append the following: Any book that gets petulant teenagers to willingly enter a bookstore is a book I love.
Why we should all say thank you to Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling «
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But you should know that centrist/independent voters are looking at both sides, seeing Obama occasionally do things the right wing wants done, seeing the right wing not give a crap, then deciding for themselves which side seems to be interested in responsibly governing the nation and which side is being a bunch of petulant children.
Think Progress » Sen. Murkowski On Whether Obama’s Drilling Plan Makes Her More Likely To Support Energy Bill: ‘Absolutely Not’
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Certainly his petulant racket-throwing antics last week were out of character.
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Their continuing petulant behaviour sends out all the wrong signals for sportsmanship.
Times, Sunday Times
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His critics say he's just being silly and petulant.
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She looks as petulant as she does impotent.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
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Her tone of voice became abrupt and petulant.
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Obviously, since Tommy is a petulant mouthbreather, he decides instead to shift into his brother and go see the were-bully himself.
True Blood Episode Recap: "Let's Get Out of Here"
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He knew that I had not approved of Lord Elgin's petulant removal of his viceroyal establishment from Montreal to Toronto, and cunningly resolved to draw me out before witnesses on the matter.
My Life as an Author
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Thankfully, the New York quartet don't share that band's annoying tendency to gratuitously swear like petulant third-graders.
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Now he is just a petulant, spoilt brat.
The Sun
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I know this won’t be a popular view among many Obama fans who did criticize him for this were they called petulant? but I do think he did the right thing.
Hmmm « BuzzMachine
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The First Minister eventually decided to go to Normandy, but his decision to do so, and the accompanying apology, was seen as grudging and petulant.