Petulance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETULANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• peevish impatience, also PETULANCY
• the quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered
• Alt. of Petulancy
• an irritable petulant feeling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being petulant; peevishness

Words related to PETULANCE

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Words that contain PETULANCE

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How to use PETULANCE in a sentence

• I glanced at his face, half shamed of my petulance, and I saw that he was no longer smiling.
• Carlyle makes us almost love this man, in spite of his awkwardness, dogmatism, and petulance.
• After a time the response lost its metallic petulance.
• But having gone thus far, I should be unhappy, if after marriage, in the petulance of ill humour, I had it to reproach myself, that I did not try her to the utmost.
• Cecilia lost more love by general petulance than she could gain by the greatest particular exertions.
• Smith! As to marrying her, that of course had been a joke produced by the petulance of his snoring friend.
• It was marked by earnestness, sincerity, even by some petulance, interspersed with frank and spirited repartee.
• We shall endeavour to avoid that petulance which treats with contempt whatever has hitherto been reputed sacred.
• It criticized a new world and fresh forms of civilization with the amusing petulance of a spoiled daughter of John Bull.
• Lockyard at the club, she told herself with sudden petulance that life in town had lost all charm for her.
• In some passages, again, there is an air of boyish petulance.
• There is not a female child above the age of eight but might rebuke him for spoilt petulance of his wilful nonsense.
• The rudeness, the petulance of his action! These things left his mother and sister in suspense.
• Beatrice snatched the hat from her head with childish petulance, and looked as if she were going to throw it viciously upon the ground.
• Was it mere petulance that had swung round his opinions so violently during the journey? He examined himself and found his new convictions unshaken.
• She was abstracted and thoughtful, and her petulance disappeared altogether.
• This ill-timed quarrel has been generally attributed to the pride, petulance, and jealousy of rank of the Duke of York.
• It was patient, thoughtful, serious, but with never a sign of petulance.
• But no petulance could impair the beaming optimism on Mr.
• It said that in a fit of petulance you had broken your engagement with Ammon twice this winter, and he had come back because he knew you did not really mean it.
• Her power and his idolatry made me jealous, and what I did in a fit of petulance was so fastened on that I could not draw back.
• As for the trifling petulance which the rage of party stirs up in little minds, though it should show itself even in this court, it has not made the slightest impression on me.
• They are rather apt to hate than to love their nobility, on account of the occasional resistance to their will which will be made by their virtue, their petulance, or their pride.
• Her face, unpainted, was pale, an expression of petulance discernible.
• The verses of his second period often deal with the most evanescent subjects, and they now retain but a slight petulance and sparkle, as of champagne that has been too long drawn.
• I felt a gust of hysterical petulance, and went aft and stared dismally at nothing.
• She began to think that if she could devise a way of living by barter, without money at all, they might conceivably eliminate these fits of restlessness and petulance.
• A university training does not necessarily transform petulance into ripe wisdom.

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