petulantly

English

Etymology

petulant +‎ -ly

Adverb

petulantly (comparative more petulantly, superlative most petulantly)

1. In a petulant manner.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `She loves the man, and he has been pleased to accept her love: where, then, is her sin?' `Truly, oh Holly, thou art foolish,' she answered, almost petulantly.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 193:

     A wayward hen, too proud to roost with the other hens on the village church, had come to our coconut palm and was cluck-clucking petulantly, for halfway up the tree she had spied us occupying her roost.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 233:

     Her tone was resentful, rejecting a burst of generous emotion on her behalf. She stood twisting and untwisting her bag, making the money jink petulantly, while her dark eyes and vermilion pout repudiated the painted replicas of herself tacked to the wall.

Synonyms

• grudgingly