MEANING
Impatient or sulky irritation.
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- a fit of petulance
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Petulance colored the refusal.
A fit of petulance spoiled the meeting.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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