Querulous

It is legitimately hard to decide which of these four points is the most ridiculous. (1) and (2) might charitably be called querulous, demanding a full vector representation of all the heat/energy flows of a schematic representation. ❋ EliRabett (2009)

"Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Anne!" called a querulous voice down the passage. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

Suddenly the groom, a kind of querulous shiver in his voice, spoke. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Servillo's performance at the centre of Paolo Sorrentino's grotesque portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, as a kind of querulous, jug-eared gnome with homicidal instincts, was hugely entertaining and alarming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive." ❋ Unknown (2009)

We make plaintive, querulous noises, look at one another, and cluster close together. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At sight of their other prisoner he chattered in a high querulous falsetto, with puckered brows and troubled, wild-animal eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Larry blinked with the troubled, querulous eyes of a monkey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many of the frightened return boys had crowded on deck, and their plaintive, querulous voices sounded like the sleepy noises of a roost of birds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I started to crawl along the packed gear with which the wagon was laden my mother said in a tired and querulous voice, "Can't you ever be still a minute, Jesse?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Face and body were shrunken and withered, but his black, bead-like eyes, small and close together, were very bright, withal they were restless and querulous, and more like a monkey's than a man's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His eyes had the querulous, troubled look such as she had noticed in monkeys; but while he was patently uncomfortable under her scrutiny, his thick lips were drawn firmly in an effort at sullen determination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebular in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This was hailed with low laughter and querulous chirpings that might well have come from the throats of huge birds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This was followed by the plaintive, querulous expression as the idea persisted and he clutched it anew. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The expression in his eyes became plaintive and querulous, and he was greatly perturbed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His voice lost its querulous and whimpering note, and became strong and positive. ❋ Unknown (2010)