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Definition of Pettish

Pettish
Pettish Pet"tish, a. [From Pet.] Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. ``A pettish kind of humor.' --Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

Meaning of Pettish from wikipedia

- of "Lamia" confusing, and describing "St Agnes" as having a "sense of pettish disgust" and "a 'Don Juan' style of mingling up sentiment and sneering"...
- Chicago-style Great-Books pedantry—a 'coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades.'...
- introduction, had written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",...
- takes himself to be a wit"), and Sir Nicholas's uncle Snarl ("an old, pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices...
- Tomorrow Programmed (2005) Daemon (2006) Cowardice milksop (2009) Being Pettish is hazardous for Health (2010) Currency of the Kingdom of Death (2012)...
- that purpose and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D--n these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—p**** out a King …...
- Empfindlichkeit (the history of the sensibility, or: the story of the pettishness) a monumental cycle of novels. His last set of plans showed his intention...
- book. While etching with a fine, sharp wit the narrow-mindedness and pettishness of the Pecks, she lavishes on them a tenderness that lifts them above...