querulous

Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.

Years of being an underpaid and underappreciated factory worker had made him into a querulous, bitter old man.

Nothing was stirring except a bridled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.

A querulous time, rather than use your head and think of a way: Why have things like this?

This temperament was soon tested in his dealings with Fayed, whom he found to be a querulous employer insistent on perfection.

They cast their critics as a blend of the querulous Neville Chamberlain and craven apologists for Stalin.

The child's querulous questions were driving me crazy.

The national academies are becoming ever more querulous and greedy, and require higher pay-offs each year.

But when that happened betrayal querulous querulous will give up all their selection.

goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it , and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last .

We both heard Mr. Glum's voice, in the distance, querulous. And footsteps.

Investors and oil people grew anxious and querulous.

The use of apostrophes in British place names is a subject of querulous debate.

God's querulous calling.

Even the most equable of mothers can tell querulous children with sly glee: "You don't need to go to Daddy's if you don't want to. "