pettishly Sentence Examples
- The child pettishly pouted when he couldn't get his favorite toy.
- The teenager pettishly sulked in her room after her request was denied.
- The manager pettishly berated the employee for a minor mistake.
- The politician pettishly attacked his opponent with baseless accusations.
- The jilted lover pettishly destroyed all the gifts she had received from her ex.
- The dog pettishly refused to come when called, out of spite.
- The cat pettishly knocked over a vase in retaliation for being left alone.
- The employee pettishly quit his job after a disagreement with his boss.
- The child pettishly refused to eat his vegetables, making a scene at the dinner table.
- The adult pettishly held a grudge against someone who had wronged them years ago.
pettishly Meaning
Wordnet
pettishly (r)
in a petulant manner
Synonyms & Antonyms of pettishly
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- cantankerous
- touchy
- short
- surly
- cranky
- tetchy
- prickly
- ill-natured
- bellicose
- snappy
- ratty
- ill-tempered
- fractious
- thin-skinned
- belligerent
- argumentative
- curmudgeonly
- snippety
- ill-humored
- fretful
- contentious
- ornery
- quarrelsome
- dyspeptic
- pouty
- bilious
- scrappy
- cross-grained
- disputatious
- bearish
- truculent
- pugnacious
- sullen
- combative
- sulky
- off-colored
- snarly
- huffy
- off-color
- disagreeable
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FAQs About the word pettishly
in a petulant manner
fiery,irritable, sensitive, snappish, perverse, waspish, irascible, querulous, snarky, testy
companionable, genial, sweet, amiable, outgoing, gregarious, affable, companionable, outgoing, genial
The child pettishly pouted when he couldn't get his favorite toy.
The teenager pettishly sulked in her room after her request was denied.
The manager pettishly berated the employee for a minor mistake.
The politician pettishly attacked his opponent with baseless accusations.
