Contumacious (adj)
kon-tyoo-may-shus
Stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
Or perhaps just being a complete pain in the posterior.
Example sentences
“He’s just being contumacious, he doesn’t mind really.”
“It took hours to get round the supermarket, Lucy was being truly contumacious, I was mortified.”

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