querulously


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quer·u·lous

 (kwĕr′ə-ləs, kwĕr′yə-)
adj.
1. Given to complaining; peevish.
2. Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling: a querulous voice; querulous comments.
[Middle English querulose, litigious, quarrelsome, from Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulōsus, querulous, from Latin querulus, from querī, to complain; see kwes- in Indo-European roots.]
quer′u·lous·ly adv.
quer′u·lous·ness n.
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Adv.1.querulously - in a peevish manner
fractiously, peevishly
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querulously

[ˈkwerʊləslɪ] ADV → quejumbrosamente; [say] → en tono quejumbroso
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querulously

adv → nörglerisch, missmutig
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querulously

[ˈkwɛrʊləslɪ] adv → in tono querulo
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His Chinese house is by the fire; and he lies within it, on his bed of flannel, querulously trying to sleep.
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"It's all very fine to say this and that," Mildred remarked querulously, "but it's jolly difficult for a girl to earn her living by herself; it doesn't make it any easier when she's got a baby."
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Then he turned on his heel and limped into the forest, leaving us calling querulously and plaintively to one another from the cave-mouths.
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In my youth young men didn't desert pretty women unless they were made to!" She gave another chuckle, and interrupted it to say almost querulously: "It's a pity she didn't marry you; I always told her so.
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Lady Anselman glanced at her august guest a little querulously.
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"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession.
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"I don't know how we could manage without him," answered the elder woman querulously.
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'If he meant lamb,' he said, querulously, 'why didn't he say "lamb", so's a feller could hear him?
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And, without waiting for an answer, he went on, rather querulously: "Very few people care for poetry.
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It was his last demonstration for that time; as, after shedding some more tears and querulously complaining that he couldn't breathe, he slowly fell into a slumber.
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On our right a line of light marked the door of the room which had sent its ray across the night; and behind the door I heard a woman's voice droning querulously.
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"You seem to think that I have no conscience," said Gertrude querulously.
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