adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a querulous manner.

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1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 147. Querulously accusing her for playing with her own gifts.

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1728.  Young, Love Fame, VI. 138. His wounded ears complaints eternal fill, As unoil’d hinges, querulously shrill.

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1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., x. Objections … captiously urged and querulously maintained.

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1883.  Sir T. Martin, Ld. Lyndhurst, xiv. 366. [They] complained almost querulously of the bitterness of Lord Lyndhurst’s invectives.

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