| Miss Bennett handed back the map and spoke somewhat pettishly from behind the handkerchief. |
| Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating. |
| A fervent believer as a boy, he broke with the church as an adolescent, pettishly refusing his mother's dying request that he make his confession and take Communion. |
| Lady Cecily was cross and hurt, and she turned away pettishly. |
| Somewhat pettishly, though no doubt with some truth, de Botton asserts that the chief executive's success will depend mostly on luck. |
| After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair. |
