pet-u-lent

Updated: May 9, 2025

And indeed, Miss Garnet may have had her suspicions, for over their ice-cream and coffee she said amusedly to Mrs. Fair, and evidently in reference to him, "I am afraid it was only the slightness of our acquaintance that kept him from being pos-i-tive-ly pet-u-lent."

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner