pettishly
- r in a petulant manner; `Go away!'"
- Many feel that Strauss has acted pettishly.
- One Aberhart law pettishly forbade the courts to declare any Social Credit legislation unconstitutional.
- When Giselle, who is French and flighty, seems ready to return to his arms from her fling with Big Brother, John tells her pettishly: "I hate eating from dirty plates.