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petulantly

[ pech-uh-luhnt-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that shows impatient irritation, especially over some minor annoyance:

    When the vote didn't go his way at the meeting, he knocked over his chair, petulantly kicked it out of his path, and stormed out of the room.



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Other 51Թ Forms

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He kept petulantly defending his actions to the end of his life.

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Especially this kind of bullying Rodgers is engaging in, where he slithers away from direct conflict with Kimmel — which he'd fail at — and instead petulantly tries to inflict harm from afar.

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They behave petulantly at the breakfast table and eventually go so far as to call Zeynep and Mehmet “mom” and “dad.”

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When confronted by the judge, Trump petulantly declared he would “love” to be kicked out of court.

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I petulantly refused to respond in Spanish for years after that, despite my tired mother’s best efforts.

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