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querulous
adjective as in grouchy, hard to please
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
Example Sentences
The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.
Calasso reconstruction is, in Mounts' judgment, a superbly ambitious, quirky, querulous, lyrical, and finally persuasive essay.
When the feeble, querulous mother died, Romarino was fifteen years of age.
But, though Portland was an unreasonable and querulous friend, he was a most faithful and zealous minister.
This consists in extending the suffrage among the querulous and suffering part of the people.
The human sweetness in him was half dried up, and a misanthropy, so new and alien to him, made him querulous and captious.
Mrs Beazeley, the housekeeper, has become inert and querulous from rheumatism and the burden of added years.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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