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Petulant

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Adjective

1. cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy

easily irritated or annoyed

Example Sentences:
'an incorrigibly fractious young man'
'not the least nettlesome of his countrymen'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Petulant

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adjective
irritable, impatient, or sullen in a peevish or capricious way

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Petulant

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adjective
1.  Obsolete
forward or insolent
2. 
impatient or irritable, esp. over petty things; peevish

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Petulant

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adj.
1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
2. Contemptuous in speech or behavior.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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