| 单词 | pettishness |
| 释义 | pettishness (once / 65663 pages) n WORD FAMILY pettishness: pettishnesses+/pet: pets, petted, petter, petting, pettish/petter: petters/petting: pettings/pettish: pettishly, pettishness USAGE EXAMPLESExperience had taught them the efficacy of these measures; they obtained by this species of pettishness the various objects of their desires. Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois, The Power Of The Popes(2012) I laughed at his coldness; convinced, as I now was, that it was only the pettishness of jealousy. Brunton, Mary, Discipline(2012) He bore her pettishness and imperiousness not as a slave, but indulgently as one bears the caprices of a loved child. Madison, Lucy Foster, A Maid at King Alfred?s Court(2011) n a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger Syn|Hypo|Hyper biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper querulousness the quality of being given to complaining ill nature a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition |
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