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What (who) is querulous - definition
querulous
a.
Complaining, murmuring, querimonious, petulant, peevish, cross, dissatisfied, discontented, fault-finding, bewailing, lamenting, whining, mourning, fretful.
querulous
['kw?r?l?s, 'kw?rj?l?s]
¦ adjective complaining in a petulant or whining manner.
Derivatives
querulously adverb
querulousness noun
Origin
C15: from late L. querulosus, from L. querulus, from queri 'complain'.
Querulous
·v Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
II. Querulous ·v Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.
III. Querulous ·v Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
Examples of use of querulous
1. I particularly liked Georgie Henley‘s Lucy, with her querulous big eyes and overbite, who discovers Narnia.
2. Today, flanked by a battalion of riot police, they sounded only querulous.
3. The prime minister will hold a press conference on Monday and address querulous Labour MPs later that night.
4. Before going on to point out that Nasser Hussain is "a querulous toad who looks like Ming the Merciless". Quite right to.
5. Now that the country is run largely by the smooth, the modish and the obsessively modern, his grumpy, querulous and unfashionable protests serve an important purpose.