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单词 querulously
释义
querulousquer‧u‧lous /ˈkwerələs/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINquerulous
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin querulosus, from queri; QUARREL1
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a querulous voice
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.
  • Mr. Lorrimer's voice, frail and querulous, was bleating at the other end.
  • That might seem to be precisely the sort of querulous argument which the Left has familiarly been scorned for posing.
  • The car screeched around the corner after him in a burst of fumes and querulous voices.
  • They go in for querulous and disputatious argument.
  • To compensate, and, anxious to preserve his patriarchal status, he may become querulous and demanding instead.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 ‘But why can’t I go?’ he said in a querulous voice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.· The car screeched around the corner after him in a burst of fumes and querulous voices.
someone who is querulous complains about things in an annoying way:  ‘But why can’t I go?’ he said in a querulous voice.querulously adverb
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