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
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
He catches the man’s mellifluous delivery and querulous top note.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020
They just heard him moving inside the dark house, then they heard the granddaughter’s voice, fretful and querulous: ‘Who is it? Light the lamp, Grandpaw’ then his voice.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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