querulous
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Edward, a World War I veteran, is a querulous man who’s canceled all seasonal festivities at his home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The British novelist Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday at age 70, left a wide-ranging and hard-to-classify body of work that encompassed memoir, story collections, contemporary novels and brilliant, querulous literary essays.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
The version she released was much more ambitious, her dramatic vocal performance propelled by querulous strings and surging synths.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2019
A secret service agent went to her rescue but she waved at him, a querulous sort of rebuke, attempting to recover herself.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2019
It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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