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ˈpetulantly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a petulant manner; insolently, wantonly; pertly; with peevish or pettish impatience.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God i. i. (1620) 2 Those..most petulantly insulting ouer Christs seruants. 1717Parnell Homer's Batrachom. ii. Poems (1722) 88 My flow'ry Wreaths they petulantly spoil, And rob my chrystal Lamps of feeding Oil. 1838Emerson Misc. Papers, Milton Wks. (Bohn) III. 300 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with ‘great promise and small performance’. 1881W. Collins Bl. Robe ii, I am sorry I spoke so petulantly and so unfairly. |