Sentence examples for pettishly from inspiring English sources
adverb
In a pettish manner; peevishly.
The other day in Normandy, a Nazi surrendered and, in the course of interrogation by our intelligence officers, pettishly asked what had happened to the little newspaper.
"Women can do what they want" she retorts pettishly.
Miss Bennett handed back the map and spoke somewhat pettishly from behind the handkerchief.
Henry James was not a student of Freud; he was a sophomore in psychology compared to his distinguished brother William, and I once read a letter of Henry's in which he somewhat pettishly dismissed the assumptions of Freud as akin to those of spiritualism.
By Talley The New Yorker, April 21 , 1928P. 17 Lady in tearoom had ordered cocoa and when the waitress brought coffee, cried pettishly "What is this, what is this?" "The Panama Canal", responded the waitress.
One of the gentlemen remarked pettishly, "I really believe you think more of squash than you do of women".
Somewhat pettishly, though no doubt with some truth, de Botton asserts that the chief executive's success will depend mostly on luck.
