petulantly

English

Etymology

petulant +‎ -ly

Adverb

petulantly (comparative more petulantly, superlative most petulantly)

1. In a petulant manner.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 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.

Synonyms

• grudgingly