Explore Petulance through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like irritability or fussiness. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Petulance in a sentence
Petulance meaning
- Rudeness, insolence.
- An insolent remark or act.
- Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness.
Synonyms of Petulance
Using Petulance
- The main meaning on this page is: Rudeness, insolence. | An insolent remark or act. | Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness.
- Useful related words include: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness.
- In the example corpus, petulance often appears in combinations such as: of petulance, petulance and, his petulance.
Context around Petulance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Petulance
- In this selection, "petulance" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, showed, teenage, level and followed stand out and add context to how "petulance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include act of petulance and act of petulance that was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "petulance" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with petulance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That pique and petulance followed him onto the stage in Nashville. (11 words)
They don’t want the insults, the petulance, the constant denigrating of America. (13 words)
Tyrrell Hatton will be fined for his petulance in the European tour's season-ending championship. (16 words)
In a twist of irony, however, doing so and becoming a god leads Death to see Thanos as her superior, and she is left still unwilling to speak to him (which leads the Mad Titan down a path of petulance and toxic masculinity). (43 words)
The 21-year-old, who has been England’s player of the tournament, was initially shown a yellow card by the referee, but VAR recommended a review and the yellow card was upgraded to red after the act of petulance. (40 words)
This Nigel syndrome is causing nightmares robbing this man of his much-needed sleep and driving him wild and crazy, hunting down every media house to make a spectacle of his petulance. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
Fernandes showed petulance not befitting of a club captain, receiving a yellow card for arguing with referee Peter Bankes in the closing stages.
The 21-year-old, who has been England’s player of the tournament, was initially shown a yellow card by the referee, but VAR recommended a review and the yellow card was upgraded to red after the act of petulance.
As played by Michelle Trachtenberg, Dawn was a perennial thorn in Buffy’s side, often causing needless problems through her own teenage petulance and penchant for being in peril.
They don’t want the insults, the petulance, the constant denigrating of America.
This Nigel syndrome is causing nightmares robbing this man of his much-needed sleep and driving him wild and crazy, hunting down every media house to make a spectacle of his petulance.
Tyrrell Hatton will be fined for his petulance in the European tour's season-ending championship.
Anthony Martial was stupid in letting Erik Lamela get to him, and became responsible for an act of petulance that was never going to go unpunished with VAR.
That pique and petulance followed him onto the stage in Nashville.
Between the Trump team’s disgraceful middle school-level petulance and the Democrat’s dour, school-marmish finger-pointing, it’s hard to feel noble backing either side.
A benign, foxlike smile that can slip away in a split second to reveal a volcanic flurry of petulance.
A republic whose self-obsessed, entitled rulers discard the traditional virtues of courage, dignity and public-service in favour of their preferred vices – self-indulgence, petulance and duplicity.
In a twist of irony, however, doing so and becoming a god leads Death to see Thanos as her superior, and she is left still unwilling to speak to him (which leads the Mad Titan down a path of petulance and toxic masculinity).
Richarlison the star man, two goals, an amusing pigeon dance and some encouraging signs of petulance as well, which all contributes to the gaiety of nations.
Candide's remaining sheep are stolen, and Candide is fined heavily by a Dutch magistrate for petulance over the theft.
Common combinations with petulance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of petulance 5×
- petulance and 4×
- his petulance 2×