pettishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Lady Mary turned pettishly away; no woman likes anybody but herself to depreciate a lover; it is personally an ill compliment."
- ""You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech."
- "`Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?' he asked pettishly."
- "[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more pettishly (comparative)
most pettishly (superlative)