What's the difference between querulous and tactable?

Querulous


Definition:

  • (v.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
  • (v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
  • (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shortly after I tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation that puts women at a dramatically increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers, I landed in my breast oncologist’s office, querulously requesting a last-minute mammogram.
  • (2) Improvement rates for global symptoms were more than 80% for emotional incontinence and prejudice or querulous attitudes toward the nurses, and in headache, tinnitus and dizziness among the subjective symptoms.
  • (3) The differences are established in the manifestations and course of litigious-paranoid disorders of psychogenic personality-related origin and nonpathological querulousness.
  • (4) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
  • (5) Other qualities attached to extremism are less evident: you’d expect the hard Brexiters to be taking delight in their own victory, where instead there is only a querulous obsession with naysayers.
  • (6) There is a significant attempt on to try and drag the prime minister back to a posture where the government is more than just the querulous articulations of its base.
  • (7) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
  • (8) An excessive intensity and length of querulousness, as related to the objective value of the psychogenesis, the more pronounced trend to litigiousness manifestations, progressive loss of their relation to situational cues, aggressive traits in behavior, are all characteristic of litigious-paranoid disorders.
  • (9) It will also point up errors introduced by the patient, omissions, and distortions in offering the subjective data which the physician must evaluate.SEVEN MAJOR PERSONALITY TYPES AND APPROPRIATE PHYSICIAN RESPONSES ARE OUTLINED: the dependent demanding oral patient, the orderly controlled obsessive, the dramatic seductive hysteric, the long-suffering masochist, the querulous paranoid, the overbearing narcissist and the aloof withdrawn schizoid.The non-psychiatrist can resolve complex and puzzling medical problems if he has an increased awareness of how emotional forces complicate illness and if he can exploit comprehensive history taking to the full.
  • (10) A study of a group of schizoprenic patients (74 cases) made it possible to distinguish 6 variants of postprocess pathological personality (hypochondric, asthenical, development with querulous reactions, of a protracted reaction type, withdrawal from contacts, reaction of an animation type, reactions of protests).
  • (11) Before bringing Hunt on air, Jones told his audience he had agreed with the environment minister that the exchange would be a “querulous interview … not an acrimonious exchange”.
  • (12) Pathologic litigiousness is characterized by a larger constitution-personality predisposition, lesser situational dependence and possibility of psychopathologic classification of querulous manifestations.
  • (13) In Germany and in Scandinavia, a diagnosis of querulent paranoia may be made, although this interesting and uncommon syndrome is rarely recognised in the UK.
  • (14) None of those films did well, and Hepburn sometimes seemed stilted or querulous.
  • (15) Both men's aides insisted the show of unity around economic policy was designed to tell the country and their own querulous backbenchers that they would not change course.
  • (16) These and other features of litigious-paranoid disorders can be used as differential diagnostic factors in differentiating between pathologic and nonpathologic querulousness.
  • (17) This idea flows into the stagnant pool of Tory gesture politics – one part state-aggrandising, one part telling the people, but only the particular, mean-minded, fearful, querulous people of your own devising, that you’re on their side.
  • (18) In addition, Germany, which would need to support a stronger line, will not be keen in election year to pick a fight with a querulous neighbour.
  • (19) • Con Coughlin in the Telegraph says the English "are paying too high a price for keeping a few querulous Scots on side".
  • (20) Hunt declared he would make environmental history during an interview with Alan Jones on Sydney radio on Thursday, a conversation the broadcaster characterised on air as “querulous but not acrimonious”.

Tactable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.

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