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Adjective: petulant  pe-chu-lunt
  1. Easily irritated or annoyed
    "an incorrigibly petulant young man"
    - cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy, pouty

See also: ill-natured, petulance

Encyclopedia: Petulant