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Meanings of querulous in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "whining"
Examples for "whining"
1
LINDA: 'If you think whining will solve anything, be my guest, but-
2
As we approached the station the guide said in his whining German:
3
Outside in the atrocious cold the whining malamutes crept nearer and nearer.
4
It stopped at the prison gate, sniffing and whining and begging in.
5
Stop whining and be happy that he wants your hand at all.
1
Only young William was fretful, wanting to join the remaining United men.
2
The girl in the bed turned a fretful face toward her mother:
3
I had lived in California for seven years but had become fretful.
4
He could hear the sweet, rather fretful voice calling from the shadows:
5
She does nothing but indulge in fretful regrets over her broken health.
1
It lifted with a whiny squeak, obviously complaining from lack of use.
2
It was a plea, she'd never heard his voice so whiny before.
3
He pulled up short, crying out in despair, making small, whiny noises.
4
But you also have to deal with whiny kids and lecherous adults.
5
If Nikki came back at him whiny or defensive, she'd be finished.
1
I mean, what if you get all grabby and whiney on me?
2
Fiona's in a whiney mood because Mum can't afford her new netball boots.
3
Outside, I heard the whiney buzz of an outboard motor on the Oconaluftee River.
4
My own whiney voice began to echo around my head.
5
And his whiney cry makes the whole house blue-
Usage of querulous in английском
1
The question came out in the half-querulous, half-humorous voice of Detta Walker.
2
Her father is crippled and querulous; indeed he is often exceedingly irritable.
3
It is wilfully that we are querulous in nature, and not naturally.
4
In 1698 prosperity and security had made men querulous, fastidious and unmanageable.
5
Occasionally we caught the loud, querulous notes of the great crested flycatcher.
6
At each move the little old lady grew weaker and more querulous.
7
The querulous squealing abruptly ceased and we stood motionless beside a tree.
8
At her door he knocked and heard her voice, low and querulous:
9
From the hall, a querulous female voice demanded, What's all that racket?
10
Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
11
The gate, flapping-to behind them, sounded like a fretful and querulous complaint.
12
We are querulous and anxious, and our interest takes a feverish turn.
13
From that subject she diverged to mildly querulous references to family matters.
14
Jove-like wrath had ebbed away to something deplorably like a querulous grumble.
15
A querulous voice, rough with strong feeling, came from the inner room.
16
The Countess's letter is a mixture of pious demureness and querulous selfishness.
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Querulous through the time
Querulous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common