querulous

adjective

there'll be no rest for me with a querulous adolescent:

petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric;

informal snappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky;

British, informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, whingy, whingeing;

North American, informal sorehead, soreheaded, peckish;

Australian, New Zealand, informal snaky;

informal , dated miffy.

querulous Oxford Dictionary of English