petulant (redirected from petulancy)

petulant adjective acrimonious, annoyed, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, disputatious, fractious, fretful, froward, grouchy, growling, grumbling, grumbly, grumpy, hot-headed, hot-tempered, huffy, ill-tempered, impatient, indocile, iracund, irritable, liverish, mean, mean-tempered, moody, nagging, out of humor, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulans, piqued, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, short, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, snappy, snarling, sour, spiteful, spleenful, splenetic, splenetical, surly, testy, touchy, vixenish, waspish, whiny

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See also: argumentative, brazen, fractious, froward, perverse, querulous