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querulous
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  • Her voice was low, weak, querulous.  (source)
    querulous = filled with complaint -- often in a high-pitched whiny voice
  • I shift in my seat, feeling querulous and old.  (source)
    querulous = in a complaining mood
  • Christmas carols were in the air; they issued from the radio of the four women and mixed strangely with Miami's sunshine and the cries of the querulous, never thoroughly silent seagulls.  (source)
    querulous = habitually complaining
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  • The voice was querulous, aggressive, and rough, as if its owner had spent the last fifty years smoking cigarettes.  (source)
    querulous = complaining
  • "I know no such thing," he said querulously.  (source)
    querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
  • ...we can use a human belly and palate to produce querulousness, impatience, uncharitableness, and self-concern?  (source)
    querulousness = habitual complaining
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • His face was querulous.  (source)
    querulous = with complaint
  • "I want my tea," said the old lady querulously, "isn't it half past four yet?"  (source)
    querulously = in a high-pitched whiny voice
  • Mrs Warren loses her ease of manner and takes refuge in querulousness.]†  (source)
  • Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him.  (source)
    querulous = habitually complaining
  • "I don't know how we could manage without him," answered the elder woman, querulously.  (source)
    querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
  • Princess Mary well knew this mood of quiet absorbed querulousness, which generally culminated in a burst of rage, and she went about all that morning as though facing a cocked and loaded gun and awaited the inevitable explosion.  (source)
    querulousness = habitual complaining
  • Must he wear out all his years at the side of a bitter querulous woman?  (source)
    querulous = habitually complaining
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