PETULANT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] Burton.

2.
a.

Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay.

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