petulant
英 [ˈpetjulənt] 美 [ˈpetʃənt]

adj.

易怒的，使性子的，脾气坏的；

英英释义

petulant[ 'petjulənt, -tʃə- ]

• adj.easily irritated or annoyed

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双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. They were incredulous and petulant.
   他们不肯轻信，脾气暴躁。
2. He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate.
   他像个任性的孩子，拒不合作。

权威例句

The Petulant Americans
Beware the Petulant Patriarch
Pythagoras's Petulant Persecutors
The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
Petulant cellular acts: destroying the ECM rather than creating it
Assault of the Petulant: Postmodernism and Other Fancies
'Petulant Inconsistency'?: The Intellectual Achievement of Edmund Leach
Essay Review - Assault of the Petulant: Postmodernism and Other Fancies
Reading the Essence of LinDaiyu's Being Petulant,Oversensitive from the Comment of Zhi
‘To save the honour of thinking’: a slightly petulant response to Griffiths