01 n. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
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The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.“Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.” — Clarendon.“The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown.” — Cowper.
Syn.
Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.