Difference between Petulance and Peevishness

PETULANCE vs PEEVISHNESS: NOUN

The property of being petulant.
The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Synonyms See captious and petulant.
The character of being petulant; a petulant character or disposition; peevish impatience or caprice; pettishness.
Sauciness; wantonness; rudeness.
An irritable petulant feeling

The state of being peevish.
The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
The quality of being peevish; perverseness; forwardness; petulancy; fretfulness; waywardness; capriciousness.
An irritable petulant feeling
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

Surliness, Stupidity, Belligerence, Meanness, Tantrum, Stubbornness, Immaturity, Childishness, Arrogance, Choler, Crossness, Irritability, Fretfulness, Fussiness, Peevishness

Sulkiness, Grumpiness, Sullenness, Bile, Crossness, Snappishness, Pettishness, Choler, Irritability, Temper, Biliousness, Fussiness, Fretfulness, Petulance, Surliness

Presumptuousness, Hubris, Impudence, Impatience, Churlishness, Surliness, Stupidity, Belligerence, Tantrum, Stubbornness, Arrogance, Crossness, Irritability, Fretfulness, Peevishness

Tetchiness, Contrariness, Exasperation, Sulkiness, Grumpiness, Sullenness, Bile, Crossness, Pettishness, Irritability, Temper, Biliousness, Fretfulness, Petulance, Surliness

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Kam-- I hate taking medications and just as vunerable to Lime petulance as the pioneers mostly them.
Anger, sulking, petulance, whining, and bossing are typical and may be directed at peers, toys, or themselves.
To cure vanity, selfishness, petulance, loquacity, choler and pugnacity, try the Western air, young man; it is a panacea.
As to the rest, he spoke with impatience, and the petulance of a wronged man.
It is sweet justice to see the president and his Fox News cronies hoisted on their own petulance.
He reacted with anger and petulance, and things between us curdled.
The note of petulance turned to one of anger.
Marianne smiled too, but there was a petulance in his expression that made Jeanette wary.
Guilt and general petulance will do that to a man.

Not with aggression, not with vengeance, not with peevishness, not with accidental anger.
But we should note that what might look like peevishness can actually be a bit more multilayered.
Bishop of Fiesole, as a display of peevishness.
Kohelet: an oddly hectic quality, a sort of morose peevishness, at once restless and fatigued.