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adjective

Querulous adj.

Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. (Obs.)

Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. "Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness."

Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

Synonyms: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning; murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Querulous" Quotes from Famous Books

... the squirming bundle by both hands. It was a task—and I'm very strong. A superhuman strength waged against my muscles; but I was an old football half-back at the university, so I conquered the poor little devil. It moaned like a querulous old man; the nurse, throwing her weight upon me, forced me to let go my hold. As I did so the baby turned on its face, its dainty robe split wide open, and to my horror I saw on its back, between its angelically ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... she seized the chance to push the breakfast tray out of the door, and smooth up the bed, while she composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor. Both, from long habit rather than from any cause or reason, were of a querulous cast, and her ordinary tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction. She was at once plaintive and voluable, and in moments of excitement her need of freeing her mind was so great that she took herself into her own confidence, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... irritating than Sir Morton Pippitt's senile snobberies to keep you clean of an overgrowth or an undergrowth of fads! Your powers of endurance are about to be put to the test, and you must come out strong, John! You must not allow yourself to become a querulous old fellow because you cannot always do exactly as ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... progeny of blind and selfish political philosophies, private opinions, private "truths," and private doctrines, sectarian opinions, sectarian "truths" and sectarian doctrines, querulous, confused and blind—such is characteristic of the childhood of humanity. The period of humanity's manhood will, I doubt not, be a scientific period—a period that will witness the gradual extension of scientific method to all the interests of mankind—a period in which man will discover the ...

— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... Miss Ackroyd," she began with emphasis, when a querulous voice from an inner room called out: "Whom are ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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