Sample Sentences for
querulous
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    Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.  (source)
    querulous = complaining
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    "I don't know how we could manage without him," answered the elder woman, querulously.  (source)
    querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
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    he cried in a high-pitched, querulous voice,  (source)
    querulous = whiny (complaining)
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    I shift in my seat, feeling querulous and old.  (source)
    querulous = in a complaining mood
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    "I know no such thing," he said querulously.  (source)
    querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
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    ...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.
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    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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    "I want my tea," said the old lady querulously, "isn't it half past four yet?"  (source)
    querulously = in a high-pitched whiny voice
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    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
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    His face was querulous.  (source)
    querulous = with complaint
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    Aching, mortified, he showed his bleeding wound and querulously addressed him: "Father Zeus, how do you take this insubordination?"  (source)
    querulously = in a tone expressing complaint
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    As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. ... Querulousness was out of the question. I did not even observe her voice to falter, or...  (source)
    Querulousness = complaining
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    Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him.  (source)
    querulous = habitually complaining
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