Do you think," said she, with a pettish air, "that a good husband would leave that door wide open and not know that his wife was freezing with cold?
She had learned that long ago, and used it as a nurse does some old song to quiet her pettish infant.
This reproach I could not bear from him; for I knew, if I was become pettish and captious, affection for him was the cause; and I burst into tears.
Or as one feasts a creature rarely Captured here, unreconciled To capture; and completely gives Its pettish humors license, barely Requiring that it lives.
T was Apollo now they lapped, Those mountains, not a pettish minstrel meant To wear his soul away in discontent, Brooding on fortune's malice.
The prettiest of the bondmaids gave her braids a pettish flirt.
The Hare made a pettish flourish with the knife he was using to trim away the rags from his garments.
But how, in the name of all that is wonderful, came you to discover the danger of the pettish Baronet and his far more deserving daughter?
Sir Arthur had now got involved in darkness, of which the sedative effect is well known to nurses and governesses who have to deal with pettish children.
I'll never promise anything again,' was the pettish murmur.
The spiteful, pettish face was for the moment ennobled by the reflected glory of another's goodness and love.
The yearning in her pettish face as she stood unevenly on the discarded harness, looking out of the window toward John Hunter, caught Elizabeth's attention and illuminated the whole affair to the older girl.
Some people might have called Charley Vining a spoiled child, who had had everything he wished for from his earliest days, and now, at the first disappointment in life, was turning pettish and angry.
At all events somebody had spoiled the gayety of the place, and she was quite miserable and even pettish about it.
Well; and that makes it the more vexatious,' observed Mr Crowl, in the same pettish tone.
He was pettish and cross toward her, and made it a great condescension to do any thing that she proposed; and yet, to thwart her in any one thing made him uneasy and miserable.
I did set out before eight, aunt," said Hetty, in a pettish tone, with a slight toss of her head.
Ye may take it all, for what I care," said Bess the maiden, with a pettish movement, beginning to wipe away her tears and recover herself.
Adam was looking at Hetty, and saw the frown, and pout, and the dark eyes seeming to grow larger with pettish half-gathered tears.
Fortunately, the horses grew restive and made a jerk forward, before Monica's pettish exclamation, "I never get a chance to forget it!
I must tell you all this over and over again, as if I were whistling the chimes of London to a pettish child, in order to bring the pretty baby into good-humour!
I haven't been," cried Daisy, with a burst of pettish sobs.
She soothed the lovelorn and pettish damsel with every expression that could gratify pride and rouse high thoughts of revenge.
I am not mortified," cried Miss Hunter, throwing back her head with pettish disdain.
The only answer he received was a pettish shrug of Mabel's shoulders and a fresh kick upon the chair.
This fretful, pettish child heard her sentence with some wonder, but apparently without sorrow.
A wiser father would never have thus indulged a pettish daughter, and never have humbled himself as, to please his little Mary, Richard Jones now did.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pettish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
