pettish

• ‘How are you feeling Terrible.’ His voice was hoarse and pettish, and the eyes he turned on her were bloodshot and watering. —  TheCountsBlackmailBargain
• Eliza seemed rather pettish, the joke being against herself The reason why I mentioned that book," I said, as I unlocked the bag, "is because it points out that there are two ways of making a fortune. —  Eliza
• Constance, on her part, felt a twinge of conscience for her pettish desertion of him in his old age; for to her apprehension he was now an old man: and she was privately conscious that she could not honestly plead any preconsideration for her husband. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• The mother is pettish, childish, indulgent, impatient, and as unskilled in government as unfit for motherhood. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
• "'Twill be risky enough with midnight in our favor; with the camp well asleep, and that great fire burned down to give us something less than broad daylight to work in He turned upon me like a pettish child. —  The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

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