/kwer-yə-ləs/, adjective:
1.complaining in a petulant or whining manner
“Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.” Marilyn Moats Kennedy
2. characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish “Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.” Ralph Waldo Emerson pictured: The Rotary Club of Webster, NY