| 单词 | pettish |
| 释义 | pettish (once / 5661 pages) adj WORD FAMILY pettish: pettishly, pettishness+/pet: pets, petted, petter, petting, pettish/petter: petters/petting: pettings/pettishness: pettishnesses USAGE EXAMPLESHe found her unreasonable, exacting, pettish if thwarted, absolutely unsympathetic, and with a mind incapable of comprehending his. Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie, The Tree of Knowledge—A Novel(2012) Then she dashed her hand across her eyes--though I saw no tears in them--and with a pettish exclamation turned away. Weyman, Stanley John, The Story of Francis Cludde(2012) My father, as anybody may naturally imagine, came down with my mother into the country, in but a pettish kind of a humour. Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram S...(2012) adj easily irritated or annoyed Syn cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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