querulous
Example Sentences
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If so, why?—Evelyn’s narrative takes on a querulous, panicking tone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
One came across as a quiet, reserved, eloquent, thoughtful force of nature; the other as a boisterous, querulous, troublemaking and sometimes thoughtless and mean force of nature.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022
Brave Orchid is querulous and in her way indomitable, but she will not draw her grievances on her Biggest Daughter’s back and send her forth to conquer California.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
The version she released was much more ambitious, her dramatic vocal performance propelled by querulous strings and surging synths.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019
The second sat close to the flames, feeding them twigs and branches and complaining of the wind in a querulous tone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
