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pettishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From Pet.]
Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
``A pettish kind of humor.''
--Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv.
-- Pet"tish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being pettish; peevishness, irritability. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
n. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness]
Usage examples of "pettishness".
When she wept and sobbed as though her heart would break, and bemoaned her miseries in the sweetest voice that ever fell upon a listener's ear, who could be insensible to the little winning pettishness which now and then displayed itself, even in the sincerity and earnestness of her grief?
When she wept and sobbed as though her heart would break, and bemoaned her miseries in the sweetest voice that ever fell upon a listener's ear, who could be insensible to the little winning pettishness which now and then displayed itself, even in the sincerity and earnestness of her grief?