It is a very valuable, informative and generally well argued, if at times somewhat petulant, book.
His son's and his favourite's recent debacle in foreign affairs induced a sulky, petulant gloom in the king that intensified his ill health.
If the voice was not fully supported here there was a danger that the sound, intended to depict deep anguish and suffering, could come out as merely petulant.
They were, along with the militia who were dragooned from their families and farms and were just as petulant, the least motivated and the first to abscond.
They will pay a high price for this petulant and dictatorial piece of folly.
I have listened to the arguments, and have confined myself to an impatient or petulant intervention.
Instead, we are resorting to a petulant attempt to punish where we cannot correct.
It was an arrogant and petulant display of contempt for the ratepayers.
