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habitually complaining — especially in a high-pitched whiny voice- He said it in a slightly querulous tone.
querulous = habitually complaining — especially in a high-pitched whiny voice
- The child is spoiled and a bit querulous.
- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.H. L. Mencken
- He thought they would be delighted with his plan, but the querulous committee voiced only complaints.
- Nobody wanted to work with him due to his reputation for querulousness.
- But that period going by, she became querulous about the cold, and shivered and whimpered.Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
- Her voice was low, weak, querulous.Stephen King -- The Shining
- "I know no such thing," he said querulously.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- I shift in my seat, feeling querulous and old.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- They just heard him moving inside the dark house, then they heard the granddaughter's voice, fretful and querulous: "Who is it?"William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
- Must he wear out all his years at the side of a bitter querulous woman?Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- "I can see what you're thinking—I see a lot I never saw before"—his voice fell to a querulous whisper—"you're thinking I'm psycho."John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- The voice was querulous, aggressive, and rough, as if its owner had spent the last fifty years smoking cigarettes.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- he cried in a high-pitched, querulous voice,J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ...we can use a human belly and palate to produce querulousness, impatience, uncharitableness, and self-concern?C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- "I want my tea," said the old lady querulously, "isn't it half past four yet?"Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- Pa observed querulously, "That Rosasharn is gettin' awful scary..."John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- Aching, mortified, he showed his bleeding wound and querulously addressed him: "Father Zeus, how do you take this insubordination?"Homer -- The Iliad
querulous = filled with complaint — often in a high-pitched whiny voice
querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
querulous = in a complaining mood
querulous = habitually complaining — especially in a high-pitched whiny voice
querulous = habitually complaining
querulous = complaining — probably in a whiny voice
querulous = complaining
querulous = whiny (complaining)
querulousness = habitual complaining
querulously = in a high-pitched whiny voice
querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
querulous = habitually complaining
querulous = habitually complaining
querulously = in a tone expressing complaint