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  • 41Querimoniously — Querimonious Quer i*mo ni*ous, a. [L. querimonia a complaint, fr. queri to complain. See {Querulous}.] Complaining; querulous; apt to complain. {Quer i*mo ni*ous*ly}, adv. {Quer i*mo ni*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 42Querimoniousness — Querimonious Quer i*mo ni*ous, a. [L. querimonia a complaint, fr. queri to complain. See {Querulous}.] Complaining; querulous; apt to complain. {Quer i*mo ni*ous*ly}, adv. {Quer i*mo ni*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 43Torquato Tasso — Infobox writer name = Torquato Tasso |thumb|220px|right caption = birth date = birth date|1544|3|11|df=y birth place = Sorrento, Italy1 death date = death date and age|1595|4|25|1544|3|11|df=y death place = Rome, Italy occupation = Poet, Novelist …

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  • 44Populism — is a discourse which supports the people versus the elites. Populism may involve either a political philosophy urging social and political system changes and/or a rhetorical style deployed by members of political or social movements competing for …

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  • 45disputatious — I adjective argumentative, bickering, cantankerous, captious, competitive, contentious, contrary, controversial, debatable, dialectic, discordant, discrepant, disputable, disputative, dissenting, dissentious, divided, fractious, hostile,… …

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  • 46fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …

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  • 47petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …

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  • 48malcontent — Synonyms and related words: agitator, alienated, anarch, anarchist, beefing, bellyacher, bellyaching, bitching, brawler, complainant, complainer, complaining, complaintful, contumacious, crab, crabbing, crabby, crank, cranky, croaker, croaking,… …

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  • 49tone — n. style, trend 1) to set the tone sound 2) dulcet, sweet; harsh; strident tone(s) manner of speaking that reveals the speaker s feelings 3) an abusive; angry; apologetic; arrogant; businesslike; condescending, patronizing; decisive; emphatic;… …

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  • 50irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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