querulousness

“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.

If Carlile had the querulousness, which condemned others, he had also the rarer courage which condemned himself.

But as her soul became more shrivelled she pointedly avoided even the mention of Terence's name, and showed general signs of a peevish querulousness, which was alien to her strong character.

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.

Mary seemed a little better; her querulousness was a good sign; but it would not further her recovery to tell her that Tommy was missing.