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petulant
Meaning: childishly irritable or sulky, especially over small things
petulant in a sentence
How petulant is used in real sentences:
The petulant toddler threw his toy across the room when told it was bedtime.
Her petulant response to losing the game embarrassed her teammates.
“Visitors cast a claw-raising crab as a pompous ruler and called a blenny petulant when it was crowded from a crevice and nipped its neighbor.”
— from the passage A Basin Between Tides
Synonyms for petulant
Other words for petulant — peevish, sulky and cranky — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of petulant
Words that mean the opposite of petulant:
- agreeable
- easygoing
Where it comes from
From Latin petulans "impudent, forward"
Memory hook
PET-ULANT -- like a spoiled pet that whines when it doesn't get its way.