pétulant meaning in English
adj. lively, exuberant
Examples
- Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, Cybill Disobedience, that Willis became angry at Director when he read the book and discovered the character had been written as a "neurotic, petulant actor."
Cybill Shepherd écrit dans son autobiographie, Cybill Disobedience (2000), que l'acteur fut en colère contre Director, car il le décrivait comme un « acteur névrosé et pétulant ». - Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle; Marples was described by some as "cocky", "flash", "slick" and as a "construction tycoon", and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a scholarship to a grammar school was one of only two "self-made men" in his cabinet.
C'est à ce moment qu'Ernest Marples, ex-Secrétaire d’État aux Postes, devint ministre des Transports du nouveau cabinet ; on a dépeint Marples comme un magnat de la construction orgueilleux (cocky), pétulant (flash) et intriguant (slick), et Macmillan a pu écrire que ce jeune homme des classes laborieuses, boursier d'une grammar school, était l'un des deux seuls self-made men de son cabinet.