What's the difference between impetuous and petulant?

Impetuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
  • (a.) Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
  • (2) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (3) One patient acts impetuously while another seems to have lost his spontaneity.
  • (4) The young Yorkist King Edward IV's impetuous union with the beautiful Elizabeth Woodville didn't produce such an immediate bloodbath in 15th-century England, but its eventual consequences – dead princes in the Tower, a usurping king slaughtered at Bosworth and the coming of the Tudors – were scarcely less cataclysmic: the Plantagenets, like the Starks, wiped out by their enemies.
  • (5) They are not, generally, short, pushy, vulgar, uncultured, impetuous, shamelessly admiring of money and those who have it, or married – three months after divorcing his last wife, two months after meeting the new one – to ex-supermodels whose past conquests reportedly include Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.
  • (6) Gayle’s second booking duly arrived just before the break, his impetuousness again getting the better of him as he fractionally mistimed a lunge on Cheikhou Kouyaté.
  • (7) So you have a self-selected sample of impetuous people, thinking … well, I don't know what they were thinking because they wouldn't say.
  • (8) Because of the impetuous nature of some crack-related sexual activity and because 76% of respondents acknowledged that they were either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" that they might get acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, it is possible that a program of widespread distribution of condoms in neighborhoods where crack use is prevalent might make it possible for the worried, impulsive crack user to practice "safer sex."
  • (9) On introspective examination, these cardiac patients showed an increased feeling of inferiority and of basic anxiety and a more impetuous behaviour as their way of self-protection, but a reduced need for independence due to parental overprotection was not confirmed.
  • (10) Any opportunities for tracing up etiologic factors and exerting therapeutic influence, if at all, will be restricted to initial stages of the, otherwise, impetuous development.
  • (11) Smokers, regardless of intensity of habit, report that they are more defiant, impetuous, thrill-and-danger seeking, emotionally labile and preoccupied with oral concerns that are non and former smokers.
  • (12) True, young people tend to be more open, straightforward and impetuous than older ones.
  • (13) "His relationship with authority is linked to the way he constantly had to duck and dive against the impetuous, authoritarian character of his father.
  • (14) The peak of trypomastigotes with the kinetoplast deprived of obviously stained RNA precedes the impetuous increase of parasitemia.
  • (15) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
  • (16) Controversial and impetuous in his youth, he matured into a world-class social historian and remained impetuous to the end.
  • (17) Similarly, the developers of chemicals complain that EU regulation kills impetuous to develop acceptable alternatives.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once upon a time, his supporters adored this kind of impetuous display, for it showcased Trump’s authenticity.
  • (19) "She's very careful and thoughtful, not impetuous and won't have made this decision quickly."
  • (20) More recently it was Sarkozy, too, who made all the early running over Libya: taking a highly impetuous gamble by recognising the rebels, persuading a reluctant US to come in, flying missions over Libyan soil before anyone else got airborne, supplying arms, and calling two separate summits at the Elysée.

Petulant


Definition:

  • (a.) Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
  • (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This speaks volumes of Hamilton and his petulant behaviour.
  • (2) One of the stories that took hold about the Klebolds after the shooting was that they were rich, and that Dylan’s violent behaviour was an extreme version of a spoilt child’s petulance.
  • (3) If we’re going to do this groupthink [a blanket ban] I think it would smack of petulance.” Jones added: “I stand by what Tony Abbott said: it [Q&A] is a lefty lynch mob.
  • (4) For a man who can clearly dance, he tends to deliver with a petulant shrug rather than an enthusiastic bang.
  • (5) One expects tension between a government and charities that tell inconvenient truths, but this has become a notoriously fearful, petulant, and intolerant administration.
  • (6) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
  • (7) His latest show of petulance drew boos from a crowd largely sympathetic to his antics up to that point.
  • (8) Stuart Lancaster and his coaching team sat looking down at the floor when Owen Farrell received a yellow card 10 minutes from the end for an act of petulance that in part explained why England have failed to live up to the high standard set in the pool of death, perhaps in the hope of a sink hole opening up and taking them away.
  • (9) Croatia have won 4-0 due in no small part to the idiocy of Alexandre Song, who was sent off in the first off for a preposterous show of petulance.
  • (10) Goaded, taunted and tormented by the prosecution, Pistorius was perhaps his own worst enemy during cross-examination, suffering surprising memory lapses and appearing evasive, agitated, petulant and self-contradictory.
  • (11) With great power comes great responsibility, so Facebook , and other large technology companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix need to be watched, critiqued and regulated if necessary, just like any other corporation or petulant adolescent.
  • (12) A petulant Henry cursed wretched foreigners and launched his own Brexit by leaving the church of Rome.
  • (13) But that is not possible for as long as Assad remains in power without any timetable for his departure, and for as long as his security forces murder, torture, gas and bomb his own people.” Nigel Dodds, the deputy DUP leader, indicated he was likely to back airstrikes and issued a vicious assault on the Labour leadership, saying: “It’s the petulant, putrid response of the irresponsible revolutionary bedsit they barely seem to have clambered out of.
  • (14) Chris Bryant, the former minister for Europe and chairman of the parliamentary all-party Russia group, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
  • (15) Pakistan authorities counter claim that, emboldened by countrywide instability and foreign support, Baloch feudal leaders have petulantly demanded ever more royalties.
  • (16) They see the protesters as petulant malcontents and repeat Trump’s accusation that some of them are surely getting paid to demonstrate.
  • (17) I give all my customers five stars except Nicholas, whom I give one star out of petulance at his laziness.
  • (18) She was vulnerable, touching, kindly, loving, wholly lacking in malice, occasionally petulant in a good cause, and demonstrated her lack of talent for guile whenever she entered upon some well-intentioned intrigue.
  • (19) Obama has responded with emotions rarely seen during his stoical administration: anger at “hysterical” politicians back home, sorrow at the thought of sending US troops into another Middle East war he fears would be unwinnable, and petulance in the face of those who question his resolve.
  • (20) He not only represents everything a DJ shouldn't be – obnoxious, petulant, unfunny, and so over-fond of his own horrible, squeaky voice that entire half-hours can pass without any music being played – he represents everything that's wrong with this country.