Sample Sentences for
querulous
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    Her voice was low, weak, querulous.  (source)
    querulous = filled with complaint -- often in a high-pitched whiny voice
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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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    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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    His face was querulous.  (source)
    querulous = with complaint
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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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    ...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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    Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him.  (source)
    querulous = habitually 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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    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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    Mr. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having "let it slip through my fingers," and said we must memorialize by and by, and try at all events for some of it.  (source)
    querulous = complaining
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    "I know no such thing," he said querulously.  (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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    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.  (source)
    querulous = habitually complaining
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