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querulous
/ˈkwɛɹələs/
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What does querulous mean?
adjective
- Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkwɛɹələs/
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Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has mislaid his hat.
Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.
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Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression.
“Be a man,” he was on the point of saying, “and don’t, for heaven’s sake, talk in that confoundedly querulous voice.”
The Parson, you would say, was the east wind, and only his intimates know that his peevishness is only a querulous humor.