querulousness
Example Sentences
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“Disobedience is my joy,” she once declared, and it is no small wonder that her Jan Brady querulousness should come to dominate Morton’s book.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2021
When he feels misunderstood, a Larry David-like querulousness creeps into his voice.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2015
Presenters become even more supercilious when an outbreak of querulousness among rival supporters occurs in the stands.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010
The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
His ostentatious renunciation of worldly schemes, and especially of his twenty-years’ siege of Court favor, are in the tone of one who retains some hope in the midst of his querulousness.
From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Nathan Sheppard
