querulous
adjective
full of complaints; complaining.
querulousness
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a word derived from
querulous.
Example Sentences
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“Disobedience is my joy,” she once declared, and it is no small wonder that her Jan Brady querulousness should come to dominate Morton’s book.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2021
When he feels misunderstood, a Larry David-like querulousness creeps into his voice.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2015
Presenters become even more supercilious when an outbreak of querulousness among rival supporters occurs in the stands.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010
Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus then has our language been in perpetual movement, and that “purity of style,” whose presumed violation has raised such reiterated querulousness, has in reality proved to be but a mocking phantom, fugitive or unsubstantial.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
