Petulant
['petjʊl(ə)nt] or ['pɛtʃələnt]
解释:
(a.) Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
(a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
校对:雷明顿
同义词及近义词：
a. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, hasty, touchy, testy, crusty, pettish, waspish, choleric, snappish, snarling, cross, crabbed, captious, censorious, acrimonious, perverse, froward, ill-tempered, out of sorts.
克莉丝汀编辑
同义词及反义词：
[See_APPAL]
校对:伍德罗
解释:
adj. showing peevish impatience irritation or caprice: forward impudent in manner.—ns. Pet′ulance Pet′ulancy sauciness: peevishness or impatience.—adv. Pet′ulantly.
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例句:
- She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- With a little short, petulant 'Oh! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My sister was by nature destitute of the common feelings of anxious, petulant jealousy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She was too quick in this petulant sally against 'Pa's lodger'; and she felt that she had been so when she met his quiet look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Caroline looked keenly up, and made a movement towards him, something between the loving and the petulant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- His wound was making him sound petulant. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
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