petulantly

adv

Etymology

From petulant + -ly.

  1. derived from petulāns
  2. formed as petulantly — “petulant + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a petulant manner.

    • `She loves the man, and he has been pleased to accept her love: where, then, is her sin?' `Truly, oh Holly, thou art foolish,' she answered, almost petulantly.
    • A wayward hen, too proud to roost with the other hens on the village church, had come to our coconut palm and was cluck-clucking petulantly, for halfway up the tree she had spied us occupying her roost.

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