querulous
I
adjective
bewailing, canting, captious, carping, censorious, clamorous, complaining, contentious, cross, difficult, difficult to please, discontented, disputatious, dissatisfied, exceptious, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, hard to please, hypercritical, hypersensitive, irritable, lamentative, lamenting, maledicent, mournful, nagging, overcritical, peevish, pettish, petulant, plaintful, plaintive, pugnacious, puling, quarrelsome, queribundus, querimonious, querulus, shrewish, splenetic, tearful, testy, touchy, vixenish, wailful, waspish, whimpering, whining, whiny
II
index
fractious, froward, litigious, particular (exacting), petulant, reluctant, resentful,
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006