Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word QUERULOUS

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Definitions of QUERULOUS

1. Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.

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Examples of Using QUERULOUS in a Sentence

• However, his visit to the querulous author only increased his despondency, and he became so self-critical that he was rendered unable to compose.
• A British journal said of the captive Sindhi Amirs: "The Amirs as being the prisoners of the state are maintained in strict seclusion; they are described as Broken-Hearted and Miserable men, maintaining much of the dignity of fallen greatness, and without any querulous or angry complainings at this unallevable source of sorrow, refusing to be comforted".
• Even with the addition of Sonia Manzano as the young, single woman Maria in the third season, critics still chided "All in all, Sesame Street has changed, from being incredibly sexist to being slightly less sexist" This view was helped by characters like Betty Lou, "a simpering, querulous little girl with pigtails and a squeaky voice".
• Their aimless, querulous existence is contrasted with Mavis's sister Barbara and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness in suburban Chigwell serves as a comfortable facade for their lacklustre marriage.
• When Daniel's mother misinterprets the Wordsworth line the child is father of the man, there may ensue some querulous chitchat about the nature-nurture controversy, but the relevance to Kate's predicament is fine and clear: avoidance of her own history may amount to ingratitude, and even guilt can be a form of snobbery.
• A condition similar to PTED has already been described by Emil Kraepelin as early as 1915 by the name querulous paranoia as a form of traumatic neuroses, explicitly demarcating it from personality disorders.
• The six Shakespearean sonnets that Robert Southey devoted to the slave trade in 1794 are so many exercises in emotionality and earned their author the satirical address in the sixth number of the Anti-Jacobin Review beginning "Wearisome sonneteer, feeble and querulous".
• With his rough disdain and Thornton's tendency to querulous irritability there must be occasional splutterings, and the only way of keeping them down is for you and other members to attend as often as convenient discountenance them by quietly maintaining the rules of debate.
• The Romans either intoned phrases of hollow nobility and stoicism or were querulous and fearful; their British allies in the fight against the encroaching Saxons merely slouched and growled.

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