Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a querulous or complaining manner.

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  • adverb With grumbling, complaining, or whining.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a peevish manner

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Examples

  • For those who do not know the word, it means: to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.

    Gay life in Mexico 2006

  • For those who do not know the word, it means: to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.

    Where are nice Mexico lake cities? 2006

  • "What'll pop say to your doin 'somepin like this here!" she called querulously after Tillie as she followed her across the kitchen to the door.

    Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch Helen Reimensnyder Martin 1903

  • Then he turned on his heel and limped into the forest, leaving us calling querulously and plaintively to one another from the cave-mouths.

    Before Adam Jack London 1896

  • He closed and barred the door, and a voice called querulously from the shadows.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • There he tossed the rich tunic carelessly over a stuffed chair, summoned servants and called querulously for bath water.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Other voices sounded now on shore, called querulously to one another and to the unresponsive shapes moving about the great raft.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • He caught his breath, pressed on her heels impatiently, and when they entered the tiled yard brushed past her and walked towards the lantern, which was close to the door in the side of the house, calling querulously: "Mother!

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Then he turned on his heel and limped into the forest, leaving us calling querulously and plaintively to one another from the cave-mouths.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • To him it seemed half amphibian, half the sounds of a man crying to himself and querulously chanting his sorrows to the general universe.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

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