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Querulously

Querulous \Quer"u*lous\, a. [L. querulus and querulosus, fr. queri to complain. Cf. Cry, v., Quarrel a brawl, Quarrelous.]

  1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.]
    --land.

  2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.

    Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness.
    --Macaulay.

  3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

    Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning; murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied. [1913 Webster] -- Quer"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Quer"u*lous*ness, n.

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querulously

adv. With grumble, complaining, or whine.

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querulously

adv. in a peevish manner [syn: peevishly, fractiously]

Usage examples of "querulously".

That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.

They clacked the edges of their front and rear pairs of wings together querulously.

The spray in his hands was trembling so much that the bee retreated from its flower cup and hung an inch or two away in the air, buzzing querulously.

She seems fairly sloshed throughout the film, frequently mumbling or mispronouncing lines, totally garbling Spanish phrases, and querulously complaining that the words she's been told to recite don't make any sense.

He worked himself relentlessly into exhaustion before the long night was over and came down with a snife the next day that sent him hurrying querulously into the medical tent to have his temperature taken by Gus and Wes and to obtain a mustard plaster and vaporizer.