pettish

It is too wicked of you to be so pettish!

He was not some pettish child to be smoothed down.

Lewis got up and pulled the curtains across with a pettish jerk of his hands.

She swept through the entrance and flung a pettish look in his direction.

Luci asked with a pettish note in her voice.

She threw it down upon the table with a pettish gesture that was wholly feminine.

He stopped and shook his head, the tiredness overwhelming him, the pettish anger gone.

He seated himself in a rather pettish manner.

She swept by him with an oblique pettish glance, and he followed her into the security of the drawing room.

She offered Hayes a coy, pettish pursing of her lips.

The pettish expression, that attribute of neuroticism, was gone from her.

Shame made her words sound pettish and ungrateful.

"Verified and valid," she said, and held the card out, still something pettish.

With a pettish gesture he batted the balloon.

Otherwise, he's apt to get pettish again.

With a pettish motion Zocco cast the clod of dirt aside.

"No, he won't," she snapped, tossing her fringe with a pettish shake of her head.

Kate hunched a pettish shoulder.

"I did set out before eight, aunt," said Hetty, in a pettish tone, with a slight toss of her head.

"You sound quite pettish, dear.

Queen Sollace made a pettish face.

She stamped her foot, her rosy face flushed with pettish anger, and ran toward the stairway leading down into the castle.

"I have no idea," Plum answered, somewhat pettishly she knew, but if anyone had a right to be pettish, surely she had.

And if it does not receive gratification it becomes pettish and destroys in a tantrum.

Buckingham was pettish.