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• In a decidedly petulant manner she sat with crossed arms and a frown.From the entry decidedly
• Her petulant sister and the logy Luella never dreamed that Aunt Crete desired such unauntly indulgences.1993 [1911], Grace Livingston Hill, “Aunt Crete’s Emancipation”, in Grace Livingston Hill: Five Complete Novels in One Volume, Barbour and…. From the entry unauntly
• Her petulant sister and the logy Luella never dreamed that Aunt Crete desired such un-auntly indulgences.1911, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete’s Emancipation, Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry un-auntly
• Kneller's portrait shows a handsome, even slightly effeminate young man, arrogant, perhaps petulant, but for many, the ideal beau sabreur.2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 66. From the entry beau sabreur
• Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?1993, Mike Leigh, Naked (motion picture). From the entry ken
• As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan. From the entry peregrine
• When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.1981, Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present, page 135. From the entry haberdashed
• Parliament had been meeting regularly, generally around Hilary-tide, and had been countering Henry's petulant demands for money, money, and more money with specific counterdemands.1959, Thomas B. Costain, chapter 4, in the magnificent century, page 154. From the entry Hilary-tide
• Layla would have held her trembling sister on the cab ride back to the Luxor as she devised an alternate plan for getting the petulant one back to Memphis.2016, John Dufresne, I Don't Like Where This Is Going. From the entry pteromerhanophobia
• Amidst the aseptically-perfumed bare functionality, typifying a hospital ward, a pretty and petite elfin teenage girl stirs – tawny hair all tousled and bed-headed, lips full yet petulant.2009, Garth P Toyntanen, Institutionalized 2, page 11. From the entry bed-headed
• Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.2007 November 13, Natalie Angier, “In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 May 2021. From the entry honeybee
• Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, published 1992, page 61. From the entry unwrinkled
• Yeomen of the Provision Department, young Lords destitute of petulant volubility, Aldermen, Mayors, even Lords Mayors and Ladies Mayoresses—omnes eodem cogimur—quo George III.-quo dives Tullus et Ancus.1910 February, C. R. L. Fletcher, "The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford in 1826" The Cornhill Magazine Vol. XXVIII, No. 164 n.s., p.269. From the entry Ladies Mayoresses

Meaning of petulant

1. adjective Childishly irritable.
2. adjective Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

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How do you use petulant in a sentence?

Petulant is used as an adjective. For example: “Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.”

What is a short sentence with petulant?

“Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?”

What does petulant mean?

Petulant means childishly irritable.