ˈpettishly, adv.
[f. pettish + -ly2.]
In a pettish manner; peevishly, petulantly.
| a 1619 Fletcher Mad Lover iii. ii, Poorly, and pettishly, ridiculously To fling away your fortune? 1762 Sterne Tr. Shandy V. xxxiii, He kept his fore-finger in the chapter:—not pettishly,—for he shut the book slowly. 1879 M. E. Braddon Clov. Foot xii, ‘Drip, drip, drip’, cried Celia, pettishly, ‘one of these odious Scotch mists’. |