petulancy

Light-blue eyes they were, set in a good-looking, boyish face, that had somehow an effect of petulancy.

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.

You see this is Sir George himself, my dear, a mixture of petulancy and indelicacy.

Since you do not allow petulancy of temper, nor any lightness of conduct, I should expect a continual revolution.'

Mr. Van Riper had more cause for his petulancy than he would have acknowledged even to himself.