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
Snarky and sometimes rude, the verse drama tells of a querulous prince stepping anxiously into the spotlight.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 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
As for his querulous domestic exceptionalism, you’d think they were the first parents ever to get properly ill in possession of children.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2020
From up the stairs we could hear the querulous old voices of the boarders demanding to know what had happened.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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