(rare) behaving in a bad-tempered or unreasonable way, especially because you cannot have or do what you want:
She had never seen the pettish side of his nature before.
pettishly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pettish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pettish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pettish is tagged as adjective.
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