pettishly
English
Etymology
pettish + -ly
Adverb
pettishly (comparative more pettishly, superlative most pettishly)
- In a pettish manner; peevishly.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 9:
- Lady Mary turned pettishly away; no woman likes anybody but herself to depreciate a lover; it is personally an ill compliment.
- 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
- "You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- `Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?' he asked pettishly.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 118:
- [S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.
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