How To Use Querulous In A Sentence
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The trembling, querulous voice should have been enough to shatter the ceremonious moment, but, somehow, it was not.
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The female examiner had a querulous voice, which broke off in the middle of sentences, as if she were too shocked to continue.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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And then there is the feeling that that kind of semi-poverty, which has in itself something of the pleasantness of independence, when it is borne by a man alone, entails the miseries of a draggle-tailed and querulous existence when it is imposed on a woman who has in her own home enjoyed the comforts of affluence.
He Knew He Was Right
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He paused, and then spoke in a different, querulous voice as if he blamed her for something.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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He paused, and then spoke in a different, querulous voice as if he blamed her for something.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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When a stiff back and querulous bottom-lip signals a looming mini-starlet strop in daughter Caitlin, Mr Bear is immediately whipped out.
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Q quailing culprit quaint peculiarities qualifying service quavering voice queer tolerance quenchless despair querulous disposition [querulous = habitually complaining] questionable data questioning gaze quibbling speech quick sensibility quiescent melancholy quiet cynicism quivering excitement quixotic impulse quizzical expression quondam foe [quondam = former]
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Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude.
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But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’.
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Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse.
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The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics.
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He paused, and then spoke in a different, querulous voice as if he blamed her for something.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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As with all artists, it is really about an enduring, probing, and somewhat querulous relationship with the medium he has settled down with: the paintbrush, paint, and canvas.
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A compound of imbecility and baseness, yet an object of commiseration: an unmanly, blubbering, lovesick, querulous creature; a soldier, whining, piping and besprent with tears, destitute of any good quality to gain esteem, or any brilliant trait or interesting circumstance to relieve an actor under the weight of representing him.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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Evidently the major job of a PA or Private Secretary of an important official is to act as a buffer between his master and the inconvenient hordes seeking favours or the querulous ones voicing complaints.
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No wonder that the British have changed in character, their sturdy independence replaced with passivity, querulousness, or even, at the lower reaches of society, a sullen resentment that not enough has been or is being done for them.
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He became increasingly dissatisfied and querulous in his old age.
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They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
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His mates are all out of the remake of Spinal Tap; his singing voice may be querulous, but his songs are close to brilliant.
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, and by peering, querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
The Red One
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As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems.
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Hence they are querulous, and not disposed to jesting or laughter-the love of laughter being the very opposite of querulousness.
Rhetoric
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Her desire to have it all ways at once - to be utterly independent because unconditionally supported by the tax-payers - illustrates her kind of querulous and irresponsible sense of entitlement.
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He will increasingly be seen as a querulous and ineffective obstructor of the President's policies, which are popular in South Dakota.
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Though they are still those that would contest this fact; peevish disgruntlement from pedants querulously arguing for currently used pitches, whenceforth fossilised football remains were found
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I was faffing around with laundry in the airing cupboard, and heard a small querulous voice say ‘Mummy?’
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
THE RED ONE
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I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
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We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
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They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
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Nothing is more predictable than the behaviour of the drinking alcoholic - the querulousness, the delusions, the remorse, the dreams that are talked about so often and acted upon so rarely.
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He gives me hell in querulous falsetto, and drops down to the dung-hill harem where his claws sink in ... Retrenchments.
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The querulous old man refused to be put on the shelf.
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He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’
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Vaudevillish, too, are the principals, Nat, an old Jew, and Midge, an aged black man, who keep meeting, garrulously and querulously (but symbiotically underneath), on a bench in Central Park.
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“Mama, what is that?” asked Sylvia, her shrill little girl’s voice querulous as she pointed at the immense funeral bier, the sleek black coffin strewn with white flowers.
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Someone demanded querulously from the back, ‘But how do you know they're unwanted until you try?’
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Suddenly the groom, a kind of querulous shiver in his voice, spoke.
It, and Other Stories
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I wanted to sound smart in the title of this post so I visited thesaurus. com synonyms for the word "jealousy" and "querulousness" caught my eye.
Giulia Rozzi: The Word is Querulousness. That's Querulousness
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The latter hesitated in the midst of the cut and looked around with querulous misgiving at the faces of the others.
A GOBOTO NIGHT
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This anonymity underlines the fact that Bennett based them quite closely on his own parents, ‘except that the wife is more querulous than my mother and the husband less gentle than my father.’
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He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way.
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•This postwar (or post-postwar) querulousness is just a blip for the president, and, as so often before, the Bush political and communications experts will make the necessary adjustments (or do the requisite bullying) and, with relative media quiescence, charge on.
Hullabaloo
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There is no reason whatever to suppose that the judge's querulousness with counsel has become an inability impartially to assess the case.
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But I will not trouble the workers with the querulousness of old age.
The Duke's Children
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This flow of quotation and hospitality in Wegg indicated his observation of some little querulousness on the part of Venus.
Our Mutual Friend
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Ever since the 1950s film Quatermass, science fiction authors and directors have querulously pondered: what if we sent men into space - and they brought something back?
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At dusk, the spotted owlets in the cracked-up jackfruit and mango trees would be calling querulously, bobbing their heads and glaring at you out of great golden eyes.
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It is legitimately hard to decide which of these four points is the most ridiculous. (1) and (2) might charitably be called querulous, demanding a full vector representation of all the heat/energy flows of a schematic representation.
Rabett Run
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Even Emerson, seeming to contradict his remark about ‘querulous’ criticism, agreed that ‘the doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction to the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines.’
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He turned into a Dublin ‘character’: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.
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The female examiner had a querulous voice, which broke off in the middle of sentences, as if she were too shocked to continue.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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The two qualities seem naturally to combine into that self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer, and which helps to give to his writings a manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets in all times.
Chaucer
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I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone.
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In the end, Susan Sontag may have been most notable as a photographic subject and for the querulous interview, of which she gave a bookful see "Conversations With Susan Sontag.
A Very Public Intellectual
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She led her little procession by her querulous-sounding "quank," while they replied with a low "chir-up" in the same tone.
In Nesting Time
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Anne!" called a querulous voice down the passage.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls
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The old man from being cold and high, suddenly fell, as it were, into the whimpering querulousness of extreme old age.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth.
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We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
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A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages.
THE RED ONE
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Servillo's performance at the centre of Paolo Sorrentino's grotesque portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, as a kind of querulous, jug-eared gnome with homicidal instincts, was hugely entertaining and alarming.
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Lisbeth was going on, for she was not at all afraid of Seth, and usually poured into his ears all the querulousness which was repressed by her awe of Adam.
Adam Bede
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Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness.
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I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
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But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
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In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive.
Virtualpolitik
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The female examiner had a querulous voice, which broke off in the middle of sentences, as if she were too shocked to continue.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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When I started to crawl along the packed gear with which the wagon was laden my mother said in a tired and querulous voice, "Can't you ever be still a minute, Jesse?
Chapter 12
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Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
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Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brant, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover were beyond the power of written expression.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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Yet those who have achieved far less have been honoured, so it's with some legitimacy that Stewart has been grumbling that he hasn't received so much as an OBE for his work, saying querulously: ‘I don't know why I haven't got any honour.
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Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine.
Plutarch's Morals
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Lope's success, of petulance and querulousness, and so on; and it was in this that the sting lay.
Don Quixote
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Mr Golightly had begun to experience a fellow feeling with the querulous philosopher.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab.
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‘Gentlemen,’ the coroner was addressing the jurors in his querulous voice.
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Rossetti said of all his male friends, Hughes was the sweetest and had the most ingenuous nature, the least carking and querulous, and the freest from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness.
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The strain of keeping up the appearance of piety while lacking all religious conviction helped to turn him into a querulous hypochondriac whom it was difficult for his wife and son to love or respect.
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Not that he is rough with them, or querulous, or rebukeful; but that he has a strange soft smile, and a gaze they cannot answer, and a knowledge deeper far than they have of themselves.
Lorna Doone
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Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse.
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Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time.
The Fool Errant
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Princess Mary well knew this mood of quiet absorbed querulousness, which generally culminated in a burst of rage, and she went about all that morning as though facing a cocked and loaded gun and awaited the inevitable explosion.
War and Peace
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However, she knew all about cajoling the authorities, a body of querulous, middle-aged doctors who felt that a woman's place was in the home and not working with stinking, wounded soldiers.
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The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebular in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
Chapter 35
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brent, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp, querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover, were beyond the power of written expression.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Here, the forest is full of spectacular revelations about the power of renewal in nature which is set against a querulous, nagging, domestic voice that intrudes upon the peace.
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Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Mr Golightly had begun to experience a fellow feeling with the querulous philosopher.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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At sight of their other prisoner he chattered in a high querulous falsetto, with puckered brows and troubled, wild-animal eyes.
Chapter 25
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Mr Golightly had begun to experience a fellow feeling with the querulous philosopher.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine.
Plutarch's Morals
