Noun
The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself. John Locke
But Prohibition was more than a symbol-it was a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness. Richard Hofstadter
his temper was well known to all his employees Source: Internet