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petulancy

petulancy noun: petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour.

Noun

petulancy (countable and uncountable, plural petulancies)

  1. petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour
    • the petulancy of our words1641, Ben Jonson, Timber

Forms of petulancy

pluralpetulancies

Questions about petulancy

What does petulancy mean?
Petulancy means petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour.
What part of speech is petulancy?
Petulancy is a noun.
What is the plural of petulancy?
The plural of petulancy is petulancies.

Words near petulancy in the dictionary

  1. petukh
  2. Petula
  3. petulance
  4. petulances
  5. petulancies
  6. petulancy
  7. petulant
  8. petulantly
  9. petulcity
  10. petun
  11. petune

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