Definitions for petulant

petulant pet·u·lant

Spelling: [pech-uh-luh nt]
IPA: /ˈpɛtʃ ə lənt/

Petulant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in petulant (aelnpttu).

Definitions for petulant

adjective

  1. moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance:

Origin of petulant

1590-1600; Latin petulant- (stem of petulāns) impudent, akin to petere to seek, head for

Examples for petulant

She shrugged her shoulders with a petulant pessimism her youth made amusing.

petulant billionaires singlehandedly funded rivals to Mitt Romney.

They seem, in fact, like cranky, petulant children, coked to the gills.

Homeland fans made ranting about the awfulness of petulant teen Dana Brody into a weekly celebratory ritual.

But alas, we learn that Rose is only courting the black man to make her mother angry, because she is a petulant teen.

For the first time, too, there was a petulant vein in his attitude toward me.

"I sha'n't tell you," came the petulant retort from the girl.

Are you mistress of the petulant, the peevish, and the sullen tone?

Smiled, and made him ashamed of his petulant gift there, before them.

The slimy, childish, petulant Viserys starts off as a symbol of everything about Targaryen rule Westeros has rejected.

Word Value for petulant
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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