petulance

"No, I won't drink that stuff," I replied, with all the petulance and ill-humour traditionally allowed a star.

Outside the sun was warm, the flood was calling from the dam, and the boy's petulance was gone at once.

Her face, unpainted, was pale, an expression of petulance discernible.

One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest, and soothes us to wiser convictions.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.