Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a petulant manner: with petulance; with peevish or impatient abruptness or rudeness; with ill-bred pertness.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a manner expressing irritation or annoyance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a petulant manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a petulant manner
Examples
“That he did so predictably petulantly is disappointing, if not hugely surprising.”
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“She called petulantly after her retreating caller.”
“While he stated "petulantly" that he was no longer interested in an anticipated invitation to the White House, "Saleh's mood changed noticeably for the better when the invitation was extended" by Brennan, the cable said.”
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“a cluster of stunted pines, a long-crested jay lilted about and called petulantly, until I came near, when he swung across the cañon, and I saw him no more.”
“Marcia, "petulantly," has left me to bear all things alone.”
“If you want to know," petulantly, "the one I'm worried about is Anahita.”
“It is not my fault, "petulantly," that I am only seventeen. ”
“He also writes, petulantly, that it was his belief that this story was to be about his return to a place he first loved at 19.”
“So this is what we have come to: the president of the United States, and not just any president but the World's Greatest Orator, standing in the White House petulantly reproving his partisan opponents and imploring his supporters: "If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of Congress know.”
“He may not be doing what we all want, but at least he isn't petulantly babbling about joe six pack, and threatening to take his airfield and go home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘petulantly’.
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Waughian
High probability of having been clawed from the pages of Brideshead Revisited or The Loved One
petulantly, apace, askance, rapacious, ebullient, insular, intransigeant, recidivism
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Wuthering Heights
From Wuthering Heights
sagacity, austere, surmise, corroborating, malignity, ensconing, copious, perforce, obviate, dilapidation, must needs, palaver and 154 more...
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fountainhead
perversion, reproachful, mitigate, proletariat, cadaverous, gallantry, jauntily, malevolent, eludicate, sonorous, solicitude, dubious and 97 more...
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Tom Slowies
Weeeelllllll, tom swifties really but I don't think of them very often. There are zillions out there in internet land so I'm looking for fresh, really awful ones :-)
endogamously, barked, inferred, philosophically, magnanimously, carmine, murmured, judiciously, disgustedly, deduced, uttered, posthumously and 15 more...
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bilby "My cat likes peeing on people," said Tom petulantly. Mar 18, 2009
kiltwraith moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head. Mar 18, 2009