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

Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except querulousness, it has nearly all the bad qualities of old age; and if St. Barbe is meant for Thackeray, it is contemptible even in caricature.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron