0 showing anger and behaving impatiently, especially about things that are not very important: --
I felt ashamed at my pettish resentment.
She had learned that long ago, and used it as a nurse does some old song to quiet her pettish infant.
The prettiest of the bondmaids gave her braids a pettish flirt.
He was a bit pettish when he snapped his check book shut.
His insistence caused her to display more of her pettish resentment.
Her demeanor till then had been marked by tolerance, a bit pettish.
The doctor turned away to his desk with the pettish gesture of a woman whose inner thoughts are not divined.
I am afraid she is going to be pettish.
These bursts of anguish were not the sudden gusts of a pettish woman's passion, but the settled sorrow of one who suffered without hope.
