Definition of “petulant”

But if you cross him, or make him feel foolish, he'll just become petulant.

Cratyn declared, sounding more like a petulant child than a statesman.

Grossman sat and fumed as the President continued to act like a petulant child.

He would diminish himself in Jacob... eyes if he answered like a petulant child.

In light of the controversies and the criticisms, the petulant Scotsman has refused to talk to the media for the foreseeable future.

In the past two years, on four occasions the young player has been sent off, usually for being petulant with referees.

Martin plays Mr. Chairman as a petulant child, and Dalton tries to recall his glory days as James Bond.

Not here, though, with a Macbeth who kicks the walls like a petulant schoolboy.

They are weak, petulant , disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic and often anti-American appeasers.