querulous
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His vacant, querulous expression is that of a man losing the plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
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
Fiennes shows us the conceit, followed by the querulous selfishness, with which Göth briefly wrestles with the idea that he might actually want to be good.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
Mr. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having “let it slip through my fingers,” and said we must memorialise by and by, and try at all events for some of it.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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