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Noun: pettishness  pe-tish-nus
  1. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
    "his pettishness was well known to all his employees"
    - temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, snappiness

Derived forms: pettishnesses

See also: pettish

Type of: ill nature

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