How To Use querulousness In A Sentence
- Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
- Lisbeth was going on, for she was not at all afraid of Seth, and usually poured into his ears all the querulousness which was repressed by her awe of Adam. Adam Bede
- We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
- He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth.
- The old man from being cold and high, suddenly fell, as it were, into the whimpering querulousness of extreme old age. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- The two qualities seem naturally to combine into that self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer, and which helps to give to his writings a manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets in all times. Chaucer
- Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
- Princess Mary well knew this mood of quiet absorbed querulousness, which generally culminated in a burst of rage, and she went about all that morning as though facing a cocked and loaded gun and awaited the inevitable explosion. War and Peace
- Lope's success, of petulance and querulousness, and so on; and it was in this that the sting lay. Don Quixote
- Hence they are querulous, and not disposed to jesting or laughter-the love of laughter being the very opposite of querulousness. Rhetoric
