Word: petulante
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But the worry was deepseated. There was concern over America's own economy. There was a definite foreboding that the "minimum" arms program was a by-guess-and-by-God estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the...
Worse still, the typically American Aldriches are also unhappy. The goals that the "Aldrichian civilization" respects (wealth, pleasure, power, or that sort of empty erudition acquired by "departmentalized pedants hiding in the holes of research") answer no essential needs. The Aldriches remain petulant and predatory.
Pudgy, petulant Fletcher Bowron was not accustomed to admiration and praise. He had lived up to the prophecy he made when he was elected: "I feel certain that I will prove an unpopular mayor." He had angered almost every important group in town-labor, the newspapers, the merchants, the oilmen...
(This petulant squabble over what was essentially a clash between two Communist spy systems, was the expression of a far deeper rift.)
During his last years the old soldier was stooped and weak. His cheeks were sunken and his once-square chin, below his clipped mustache, was bony and sharp. At times he was petulant. He fumed at being photographed, once cried: "To hell with the War Department-they can't...