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querulously

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quer·u·lous  (kwr-ls, kwry-)
adj.
1. Given to complaining; peevish.
2. Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling: a querulous voice; querulous comments.
[Middle English querulose, litigious, quarrelsome, from Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulsus, querulous, from Latin querulus, from quer, to complain; see kwes- in Indo-European roots.]
queru·lous·ly adv.
queru·lous·ness n.
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Adv.1.querulously - in a peevish manner
fractiously, peevishly
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"It's all very fine to say this and that," Mildred remarked querulously, "but it's jolly difficult for a girl to earn her living by herself; it doesn't make it any easier when she's got a baby.
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Then he turned on his heel and limped into the forest, leaving us calling querulously and plaintively to one another from the cave-mouths.
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His Chinese house is by the fire; and he lies within it, on his bed of flannel, querulously trying to sleep.
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