petulant

Unfortunately, the stakes of this are far greater than a petulant child refusing to do their chores.

In January, he was found guilty of attempted murder, and Judge Alice Robinson said at sentencing on Friday: "It was an angry, drunken and petulant, albeit extreme, reaction."

On set, it was said he could be petulant and exhausting, an attitude that alienated directors and his co-stars, including Marlon Brando on the set of “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

He was never petulant, argumentative or stubborn – though I knew he was easily capable of those emotions.

Friends told me to brace myself for the petulant movie star, the diva.