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of "Lamia" confusing, and describing "St Agnes" as having a "sense of pettish disgust" and "a 'Don Juan' style of mingling up sentiment and sneering"...73 KB (9,902 words) - 07:48, 17 November 2024
introduction, had written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",...42 KB (5,003 words) - 21:30, 8 October 2024
Empfindlichkeit (the history of the sensibility, or: the story of the pettishness) a monumental cycle of novels. His last set of plans showed his intention...10 KB (1,171 words) - 07:48, 25 September 2024
Chicago-style Great-Books pedantry—a 'coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades.'...15 KB (1,556 words) - 08:55, 19 November 2024- book. While etching with a fine, sharp wit the narrow-mindedness and pettishness of the Pecks, she lavishes on them a tenderness that lifts them above...5 KB (524 words) - 20:41, 30 April 2022
- takes himself to be a wit"), and Sir Nicholas's uncle Snarl ("an old, pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices...8 KB (1,129 words) - 23:34, 5 November 2024
- that purpose and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D--n these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—pass out a King …...18 KB (2,774 words) - 12:33, 30 June 2023
- Tomorrow Programmed (2005) Daemon (2006) Cowardice milksop (2009) Being Pettish is hazardous for Health (2010) Currency of the Kingdom of Death (2012)...7 KB (724 words) - 21:35, 18 November 2024
- From pettish + -ness. (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛtɪʃnəs/ pettishness (countable and uncountable, plural pettishnesses) The state of being pettish; peevishness
- how much I suffer ? 1309. Water is pleasant only in shady groves : and pettishness hath a charm only in one who loveth ardently. 1310. If my heart still
- and childish; to-day too lenient, to-morrow too exacting. The mother is pettish, childish, indulgent, impatient ,and as unskilled in government as unfit
- foul temper, hotheadedness, ill disposition, lousiness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, snottiness, sullenness, surliness futipat = curmudgeon, foul-tempered