petulance , also: petulancy

Life was difficult enough without having to put up with someone else's petulance.

He smiled at her to take the petulance from his words.

It was a show of petulance; no more nor less.

"You know more about this than I do," he said with some petulance.

A note of petulance, the little boy rejected once again.

Some here have seen it as an expression of petulance by the Pentagon.

His question had been an expression of petulance rather than any real threat, and she knew it.

Now there was no petulance or bitterness in his expression.

Mary, with an air of some petulance, permitted this process.

There was a hint of petulance in the boy's tone.

The thought tainted her mood with a bit of petulance.

Hearing the petulance in her own voice, she winced again.

With a child's petulance he picked up the box again and withdrew the inside paper.

Then laughed as she heard the childish petulance in her voice.

So there will be an end to your petulance.

Petulance came off in his tone, but he didn't try to stop it.

There was petulance in his voice, a whine for sympathy.

His voice was full of frustration, anger, and the usual petulance.

Was that a note of petulance in his voice?

Anger and petulance did turn her on, he knew.

The fact that she could hear the petulance in her own voice only added depression to exhaustion.

She felt her petulance disappearing and actually looked forward to seeing the monster.

He was annoyed at the amount of petulance creeping into his voice.

Your current experience is petulance at not being able to get the "I want" to go your way.

"I presume you will find some way to make it up to me," he said with an affected petulance.