querulous
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If so, why?—Evelyn’s narrative takes on a querulous, panicking tone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022
One came across as a quiet, reserved, eloquent, thoughtful force of nature; the other as a boisterous, querulous, troublemaking and sometimes thoughtless and mean force of nature.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022
The version she released was much more ambitious, her dramatic vocal performance propelled by querulous strings and surging synths.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019
The second sat close to the flames, feeding them twigs and branches and complaining of the wind in a querulous tone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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