pettishly

adv

1. In a pettish manner; peevishly.

   “Lady Mary turned pettishly away; no woman likes anybody but herself to depreciate a lover; it is personally an ill compliment.”

   “"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.”

   “`Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?' he asked pettishly.”

   “[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.”