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Example sentences for "petulancy"

Lexicographically close words:
pettitoes; petto; petty; petul; petulance; petulant; petulantly; petunias; pety; peu
  1. Subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator.

  2. From his youth he lived in all manner of wickedness; and thus, with a singular petulancy from nature, he performed the office of a satirist for the faction, not so much from the quickness of his wit, as from the sourness of his temper.

  3. The frequentation of courts checks this petulancy of manners; the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be learned there, correct those pertnesses.


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