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Example sentences for "pettishly"

Lexicographically close words:
pettifogging; pettiness; pettinesses; petting; pettish; pettitoes; petto; petty; petul; petulance
  1. I wandered down the garden, thinking sullenly of this, and pettishly cutting off the heads of the flowers with my sheathed sword.

  2. Rab waggled an ear when she mounted, switched his tail pettishly when she struck him with the quirt, reluctantly obeyed the rein, and set his feet on the first steep pitch of the Devil's Tooth trail.

  3. But the next moment he looked ahead at the trail, spoke to Rosa who had flung her head around to bite pettishly at Subrosa, who snapped back at her.

  4. I wandered down the garden thinking sullenly of this, and pettishly cutting off the heads of the flowers with my sheathed sword.

  5. You were quite right," said she pettishly to her uncle; "sailors are very disagreeable people.

  6. Christine ate no lunch; her head ached, she said pettishly when Gladys questioned her.

  7. She threw it pettishly into the fire as he dropped on his knees beside her.

  8. He unbuckled his sword from his side and put it into Skirnir's hands; and then he turned rather pettishly away, and threw himself down on a mossy bank under a tree.

  9. He never dealt hastily or pettishly with his money, and that was perhaps why he and it got on so well together.

  10. With so golden a result to dazzle him, was he to quarrel pettishly with the way it had been wrought?

  11. People who pettishly insisted upon these extremes of the game he sneeringly called golf lawyers.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pettishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.