0 showing anger and behaving impatiently, especially about things that are not very important:
I felt ashamed at my pettish resentment.
My aunt gave this last a few pettish, impatient moments of thought.
She was a little pettish about it, poor woman!
Such pettish quibbling is utterly unworthy of your good sense and ordinary candor.
The pettish look had passed from her face; so also had the world-wise expression.
And she whirled off, pettish, provoked, leaving the poor little fellow in his nervous state, lost in a sort of half-conscious misery.
I can't put in the pettish shoulder wiggle that goes with it, or make my voice behave like his did.
She turns away with a pettish gesture; then, after a lingering moment, he leaves her.
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.
