How To Use Querulousness In A Sentence
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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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We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
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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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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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•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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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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Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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