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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Sauciness; wantonness; rudeness.
  2. n. The character of being petulant; a petulant character or disposition; peevish impatience or caprice; pettishness.
  3. n. Synonyms See captious and petulant.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The property of being petulant.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an irritable petulant feeling

Examples

  • “Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right?”

    Archive 2004-10-01

  • “I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.”

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder

  • “SCHULZ: In what can only be characterized as petulance the Bush administration vented its displeasure with France for its opposition to military action in Iraq by opposing an increase in the level of the French-led U.N. peacekeeping effort in Ivory Coast.”

    CNN Transcript May 28, 2003

  • “That candidate wasn't establishment by any means, but the petulance is the same.”

    Pajamas Media

  • “Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto?”

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

  • “Emotionally, anxiety of being easily annoyed is called petulance causes a sense of dread or panic and Apathy is a common feeling of complete physically causes nausea, diarrhoea, and”

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  • “It's one thing to work with people with whom you might disagree, but it's another thing entirely when they demonstrate this kind of petulance -- not to mention chutzpah.”

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  • “And to say "petulance" and these kinds of words are just preposterous.”

    CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2001

  • “It is true that Keats, in a moment of that petulance which is one of his less happy characteristics, writes like this: --”

    Platform Monologues

  • “He rose up as he spoke in a kind of petulance, -- then started slightly as he found himself face to face with Manuel.”

    The Master-Christian

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