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
Although for Harvey, there's always his wife, Joyce, played with a divine combination of sympathy, spaciness and bitchiness by Hope Davis, to keep him in touch with his inner querulousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
A keen black eye seemed almost to burn within its orb, and to give an expression of petulant and peevish excitability, like the querulousness of a sick man.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
