Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pettish? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
One pettish little tax hike isn't really going to cover it, and we can only leave the last word on the monumental inconsistency to Sybil Fawlty.
But I feel Portia's moral universe of childish choices and pettish ruses, where protestations of fine feeling cannot hide materialism and malice, licenses me to satire.
Examples from Classical Literature
She threw it down upon the table with a pettish gesture that was wholly feminine.
Now, Margaret, do not be pettish, and deny yourself what you know you like best.
She was such a very baby, with her ready blushes and her pettish, lovely face.
Nor was there in this her conclusion anything of chagrin, or pettish self-humiliation.
Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office.
Mr. Haydon affected not to see the pettish act, but turned to his companion.
And he left the house in sorrow, and just, but not pettish, indignation.
Polly laughed, and did the same, feeling sorry she had been so pettish.
Monson, throwing down an evening paper in a pettish manner, that sufficiently denoted discontent.
Frank thrust out one hand and gave the animal a pettish push.
Ephraim was always gentle, even when I was pettish and cross.
