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petulance

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Definition:
a paroxysm of childish bad temper

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The fact is that, insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine, above all, the feeling of prolonged falling, had absolutely upset my nerve. I told myself that I could never stop, and with a gust of petulance I resolved to stop forthwith. Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.

H. G. Wells. The Time Machine
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loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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With a petulant snarl, I pushed the front door—

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stupid, and damp the pert.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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