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Definition of Querulous

Querulous
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. -- Quer"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Quer"u*lous*ness, n.

Meaning of Querulous from wikipedia

- of justice in relation to minor grievances. In psychiatry, the terms querulous paranoia (Kraepelin, 1904) and litigious paranoia have been used to describe...
- this description is Emil Kraepelin's description from 1905 of a pseudo-querulous personality who is "always on the alert to find grievance, but without...
- Tim Teeman in The Times described his "intonation" as "raggedy [and] querulous" in 2008, and Ann Tr****n described Peston as "excruciatingly hard to...
- newspaper which had fallen asleep in the embrace of the Liberal Party; 'querulous', 'doddery' and 'turgid' are some of the epithets applied by other journalists...
- 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...
- 1928 article in Harper's Monthly said that misandry "distorts the more querulous of [modern] feminist arguments." The term re-emerged in men's rights literature...
- comp****ionate[,] ... more easily moved to tears[,] ... more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike[,] ... more prone to despondency and...
- Travesties for the RSC. As Carr, Wood alternated between the dual roles of a querulous geriatric and his younger snobbish self remembering his encounters with...
- speech, "his words and policies were subjected to instant analysis and querulous criticism ... by a small band of network commentators and self-appointed...
- William Allen Butler, protested in the National Intelligencer against "the querulous and cavilling innuendoes" and the "irreverent wit," while the Boston Post...