The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petulantly \Pet"u*lant*ly\, adv. In a petulant manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a manner expressing irritation or annoyance.
WordNet
Usage examples of "petulantly".
Colonel Cathcart asserted petulantly from a far corner of the office, paying no attention to Colonel Korn.
Joe whined petulantly, and for some odd reason that ended the conversation.
She straightened her gray blouse, petulantly brushed a stray strand of raven-black hair, then started toward the king.
Fay said petulantly, watching the eternally boring landscape of Oklahoma rolling by.
Simon helpfully pounded his back until the breathing passages were unclogged again, and Teal jerked petulantly away and wiped his streaming tears with a handkerchief.
He saw the small man get up petulantly and go to a table where a girl waited.
Aerolus could almost see it shuffling its globby feet petulantly as it voiced strenuous objections to returning home.
Arias Ximenez, who was also the mayor of Portobelo, and he had been acting, he told Ned petulantly, under the orders of the Viceroy of the Province of Panama, Don Juan Perez de Guzman.
When he was finished autographing, he was so nearly out of his mind that he threw Pen Three away petulantly.
The oversupply of wood I had petulantly rammed in had burned off and the oven innards did not seem overhot on my skin.
Our official in charge was puffed up with pride in the prosperity of his institution, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, petulantly belectured us on adding ourselves to his already numerous burdens.
The fire was now low, the flames burning bluely and petulantly, with occasional flashes, projecting spectral shadows on the walls - shadows that moved mysteriously about, now dividing, now uniting.
A few tentative buttings did not produce the desired petting reflex, so he began to knead her thigh petulantly.
He shared his loot with Daghur and Willem, but only on demand, and somewhat petulantly.
The English lover tossed his head and affricated petulantly against his alveolum, then turned up the music -- a sexy cocksure American male voice singing, against a Mahlerian orchestra, thin dull café society songs of the `thirties.