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petulantly
adverb
In a manner expressing irritation or annoyance.
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Now I found myself doing it as well: snarling, bridling, whimpering and finally standing up and stepping away from my laptop so that I could petulantly stamp my foot for about five minutes.
Last autumn, the four government parties quarrelled over the euro bailout scheme, and then petulantly refused to make up.
Egypt's judges have serially and petulantly interfered with the creation of better democratic institutions, disbanding an elected parliament on a technicality and threatening to scrap the constitution-drafting body.
In the meantime, the border remains a potential flashpoint.The government has petulantly refused to send its soldiers south to take control.
It would be the height of arrogance to start petulantly saying we are going to second guess this.
Whenever these places seem to look to the West, still more aspire to join such Western clubs as NATO or the European Union, the Russians have reacted petulantly, as they did earlier this year by imposing trade embargoes on Georgia and Moldova.From Russia with poloniumMr Putin's use of energy as a weapon is only one instance of a Russian assertiveness that nowadays seems to border on gangsterism.
Lithuania's president Dalia Grybauskaitė has petulantly refused to turn up to a planned Baltic-Polish presidential summit in Warsaw on Tuesday.
Falco swans around imposingly and has an extraordinary, petulantly slurred voice, but she's so obviously a Find that she overpowers the film.
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