querulous
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Edward, a World War I veteran, is a querulous man who’s canceled all seasonal festivities at his home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
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
But were senior party figures to try this, Mr. Johnson might threaten to call a snap general election, preferring his chances of winning a contest among voters to one among his querulous lawmakers.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022
Fiennes shows us the conceit, followed by the querulous selfishness, with which Göth briefly wrestles with the idea that he might actually want to be good.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021
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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