| 单词 | petulance |
| 释义 | petulance (once / 5457 pages) n Petulance is whininess and irritability. Your least favorite thing about the kids you babysit might be their petulance. The noun petulance is the quality of being fretful, complaining, petty, or generally cranky. It's not a pleasant characteristic — it's almost always described negatively, like when you talk about the childishness and petulance of your constantly whining boss or the petulance of a hotel guest who complains about the pillows being too fluffy. Petulance comes from the Latin petulantia, which means insolence or immodesty. WORD FAMILYpetulance: petulances+/petulant: petulance, petulanter, petulantly USAGE EXAMPLESIt is important, though, to see this U.S. abstention as more significant than merely Mr. Obama’s petulance. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) It traffics in hatred, in petulance, in resentment. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) But the tweets would remain in his play phone, and the nation would be spared the daily and unfathomable shame of his misspelled petulance. The Guardian(Dec 02, 2016) n an irritable petulant feeling Syn|Hypo|Hyper choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness testiness, tetchiness, touchiness feeling easily irritated peta fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) distemper, ill humor, ill humour an angry and disagreeable mood |
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