Querulous

(v.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.

(v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.

(v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

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• There was no querulous complaining in the words, but they were not the less touching for that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Her father was a little impatient, and a little querulous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Phelps was still weak after his long illness, and his misfortune made him querulous and nervous. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He had found the old lady depressed and querulous. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I don't know,' replies Venus, who is a haggard melancholy man, speaking in a weak voice of querulous complaint, 'to what to attribute it, Mr Wegg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But that period going by, she became querulous about the cold, and shivered and whimpered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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