Her assertiveness has been read by some as petulance.
Some people disliked his displays of petulance and bad temper.
The immaturity and petulance of the remaining finalists is incredibly annoying.
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
I know from his petulance that he does not want to answer on a particular matter.
We by no means sought in that motion to give the impression of an intemperate explosion of petulance.
It is entirely meretricious, and it smacks of petulance.
This must be the central guiding aim to which we must subordinate our feelings of childish petulance.
