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Not pretentious enough, Creepy.

Remember, you're a preening girlie-man who finds positioning the mouse 
to be "laborious".  Don't ever relax your standards for ostentatious words.




On 11/17/2012 1:01 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>  From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
>    Querulous \Quer"u*lous\, a. [L. querulus and querulosus, fr.
>       queri to complain. Cf. {Cry}, v., {Quarrel} a brawl,
>       {Quarrelous}.]
>       1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.] --land.
>          [1913 Webster]
>
>       2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to
>          murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
>          [1913 Webster]
>
>                Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous,
>                jealous, exacting fondness.           --Macaulay.
>          [1913 Webster]
>
>       3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous
>          tone of voice.
>          [1913 Webster]
>
>       Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning;
>            murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied.
>            [1913 Webster] -- {Quer"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
>            {Quer"u*lous*ness}, n.
>            [1913 Webster]
>
>  From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
>
>    querulous
>        adj 1: habitually complaining; "a whiny child" [syn: {fretful},
>               {querulous}, {whiney}, {whiny}]
>
>  From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
>
>    103 Moby Thesaurus words for "querulous":
>       Jeremianic, annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning,
>       bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious,
>       choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky,
>       critical, criticizing, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, crying,
>       disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied,
>       dyspeptic, envious, faultfinding, finical, finicky, fractious,
>       fretful, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling,
>       grumpy, howling, huffy, hypercritical, ill-humored, ill-natured,
>       ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, irritated, lamenting,
>       lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring,
>       muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, peevish, perverse,
>       pettish, petulant, piqued, plaintive, plangent, puling,
>       quarrelsome, querulant, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless,
>       shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, testy,
>       touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled,
>       ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful,
>       wailing, waspish, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny
>