(written) bad-tempered and unreasonable, especially because you cannot do or have what you want:
He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate. * Her tone of voice became abrupt and petulant.
petulantly adverb:
'I won't go!' he said petulantly.
petulance noun [U]:
She withdrew the offer in a fit of petulance.
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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 petulant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is petulant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, petulant is tagged as adjective.
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