[
UK
/kəmplˈeɪn/
]
[ US /kəmˈpɫeɪn/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɫeɪn/ ]
VERB
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express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
My mother complains all day
She has a lot to kick about -
make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge
The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client
How To Use complain In A Sentence
- His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
- He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
- Lateness and carelessness are subjects for complaint.
- The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.
- Referring to some of the songs of that year, it complained that ‘some fellow gets shot, and his baby and his best friend both die with him, and some cat's crying or ready to die’.
- A spokesman said: ‘Following a further complaint, visits to the tea room this year established the conditions of the licence had again been broken.’
- If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
- The watchdog plans to issue formal regulatory guidance setting out how companies should handle endowment complaints and assess where compensation is due.
- Complain about their bad grammar or poor choice of headlines or biased editorials.
- The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
