The word
"petulant" means being easily irritated or annoyed, especially over something minor or unimportant.
Full definition
They are like
petulant children who will not join their playmates in playing either wedding or funeral.
There is absolutely no reason for them to act
like petulant children after the fact.
The townspeople admit, often with pleasure, to their own depravity, but with the air
of petulant children who want to be told that they're not quite as bad as the next person.
She was
as petulant as ever, huffing and puffing her way through what was clearly an utterly distasteful experience.
I also love my Vita, but don't feel the need to bombard every post
with petulant whining.
White parents from well - funded and highly performing areas are participating
in petulant, poorly conceived protests that are ultimately affecting inner - city blacks at schools that need the funding and measures of accountability to ensure any hope of progress in performance.
They have other things to do with their time than posting links
for petulant readers.
Although she is generally depicted as kind, clever, sociable, and generous to a fault in most games, the game Super Mario Strikers does show a slightly more arrogant and
petulant side to Peach, including her pitching a fit to one of her teammates and eventually jumping up and down in an apparent tantrum if the opposing team scores.
Jokes — as benignly intended as this may be — comparing opposition to centuries of oppression with persistent stories
about petulant footballers... well it's not a good one for me.
If it were not so serious, the bill to gut the EPA would be hilarious; it reads like it was written
by petulant children.
«
becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery» = > It is not for flattery it is because God does not want us to be led astray by the gods of our making.
That's your Christian needy insecure,
petulant God that needs people to worship him.
«Al Franken's petty and
petulant behavior on... the floor of the U.S. Senate is an embarrassment to our state,» Party Chairman Tony Sutton said in a statement.
Morrison never made the sustained effort needed to write even passable free verse, and his emotional range —
from petulant narcissism to dead - serious angst — is far narrower than the least of his poetic idols.
Bottom line is this... if you don't want to play for the team, fine, but don't
get petulant about it and decide you are taking your ball home and not playing with anyone.
It was a silly,
petulant foul; but of a kind that sees yellow more often than red.
Clueless is meant to be a spoof of spoiled and
petulant teen - age girls.
Only hints of the oversized,
petulant man - child are evident in Lenny; this is the kind of individual one might imagine Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison becoming in middle age.
An arrogant and
petulant people demands answers, explanations and even an apology from God.
«The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes
petulant if he does not recieve this flattery.
He becomes
more petulant and tries to disparage privatization by referring to vouchers and other forms of parental choice as «destructive and misguided schemes.»
Doesn't this make God more like an egotistical,
petulant bully who wants to get his own way no matter what, and when someone crosses him in the least little way, he is going to smack them down so hard they never think of doing it again?
Bit patronising to all the other teams and supporters who ride their team roller - coaster without the unrealistic and
petulant demands.
Please no more talk about Ozil today, Makes me sick how he dripped around the pitch like a sulky
petulant kid yesterday.
Backing up his versatile performance is the level design, which acts as the third, equally
petulant character.
Most Clinton supporters I meet
seem petulant, in denial, or in some other way unaccepting of the results.
THE HOPE FACTORY: Rambling portrait of girl seeking to leave desolate town feels overly familiar, with
increasingly petulant lead.
I've seen players being disrespectful before, but nothing
so petulant as a player who's in the form Alexis is in.
Seberg flatly drones her narration but her impish,
often petulant performance is perfect for the spoiled teenager and Kerr's middle - aged working woman seems puritanical compared to the irrepressible jet setters but is never less than honest, true and forthright.
He is gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious — and unlike the Vader of old, he is given to
petulant temper tantrums, with his lightsaber drawn, when uniformed subordinates have the unwelcome task of telling him of some new, temporary victory for the Resistance.
Ten years ago, he was paranoid and angry and treated everyone — his assistants, the fan base, everyone — like the
most petulant athlete on the roster.
King John (Oscar Isaac) throwing
petulant fits and lusting for the wrong woman, King John's mother smacking the monarch and the latter dismissing his trusted Chancellor (William Hurt) in a fit of pique, Marion refusing the advances of the Sherriff of Nottingham and later being starchy with Robin when forced to pretend he's her dead husband in order to keep the property going, Friar Tuck (Mark Addy) and his obsession with bees.
If we can figure out how to tame that unruly, defiant and
petulant son of a gun, we'll have made more peace with all of this faster than you can say front row.
The way the warmth drains from Day - Lewis» face when he's surprised by Alma one night is as painful as any of Daniel Plainview's pronouncements that his son is a «bastard from a basket,» to say nothing of his exaggerated, contemptuous movements and
petulant expression when he deigns to eat something that Alma prepares differently than he's used to.
As he struggles to regain any sense of normalcy, the dog and fond memories of his marriage give Wick some hope for the future, but it proves short - lived when he's antagonized by
petulant young gangster Iosef (Alfie Allen), who tries to intimidate Wick into selling his classic 1969 black Mustang.
I just want to say that when I read the CT interview, I thought he came across as defensive and scared and
even petulant.
But when we finally meet Tom Chaney, Brolin's
petulant performance immediately subverts our expectations.
Proto - feminist Brittain is a passionate,
sometimes petulant figure who prefers being one of the boys, enjoying innocent days out with brother Edward (Taron Egerton) and unrequited admirer Victor (Colin Morgan).
You don't own the abortion issue no matter
how petulant and rash your behavior is here.
Petulant fools who were gutted at the pathetic rally they organised and making us the butt of everyone's jokes, yey they still keep digging.
Like Tuanzebe, he got quite
petulant towards the end and got himself booked and that's something that he needs to stamp out of his game but he can take heart from his evening's work.