The word 'querulous' is a valid and commonly used word in written English.
Definition: expressing complaints or dissatisfaction in a habitual or constant manner; grumbling Example: The old man seemed constantly querulous, always finding something to complain about, even on a beautiful day.
The later he leaves it, the more risk he takes that his backbenchers will have become querulous and his government will have descended into a midterm slump by the time the people are asked the question.
As the prime minister selects his ministers, the key appointments may be those of the chief whip and the leader of the House of Lords, for I can see this becoming the most querulous and difficult parliament to manage since Jim Callaghan was brought down in 1979.
In fact, as Mr Ban has found, managing relations with the UN Security Council and the General Assembly is like trying to run a company with a divided 15-member board, while keeping 192 querulous shareholders from each others' throats and his own.
"That's what it is," he told a querulous Likud faction meeting in the Knesset next day.
Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.
But on August 10th the lines became serpentine and the people in them more anxious than querulous as news spread that the police and security services had been working overnight to interrupt a plot to blow up a dozen planes bound for America.
Arguably, the problem is Europe itself: its querulous voters and its cowardly political leaders.
Helpfully, the party's backbenchers are not proving particularly querulous.
If there is one thing that stops its otherwise querulous leaders from bringing down the government, it is the horror of being seen to usher Mr Berlusconi back into power.One of Mr Berlusconi's own allies is helping to avoid that.
Imperfect and ordinary, the siblings are overseen by their querulous mother, who feels that "every child she reared was ready with one grievance or another".
If and when the tribunal anoints him, Mr Calderón will have to strike a difficult balance between asserting democratic authority and reaching out to the alienated constituencies loyal to his querulous rival.
