Word: petulante
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Far from feeling grieved, frazzled, petulant, as the session nears its close, Senators give every evidence of being in the best of tempers. It has been an easy session. The Republican majority has had its own way, cheerfully assisted by Democrats who were glad to supply superfluous votes on nearly...
Defense attorney Farinacci was not slow to pour out scathing words upon such witnesses. The trial continued. Cynics recalled a petulant remark made by Mussolini, just after the murder was committed and before the body was discovered :
¶ Grew petulant when Sir Austen Chamberlain refused to bind himself to a definite policy respecting League Council seats on the eve of his departure for Geneva (see THE LEAGUE).
Petulant and grumpy at their matron's failure to provide adequate music with their meals, Yale freshmen last week shoved their supper dishes off the tables, bashed glassware, chairs, trays, butter, jams and desserts in all directions, shuffled out into Berkeley Oval and lighted bonfires, scampered into New Haven...
And the pipkin piped a petulant "pooh" To the garrulous gawp of the gale.