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US
/kəmˈpɫeɪnɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kəmplˈeɪnɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kəmplˈeɪnɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment
a complaining boss
How To Use complaining In A Sentence
- I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- In September, return visitors to an Edinburgh guesthouse said it was time to ‘rethink the three-star rating’, complaining that the linens were ‘soiled’ and the carpet was littered with ‘crumbs and dustballs’.
- I'm complaining about a life just outside every failed or unpublished writer's reach.
- They sat in silence, and with tireless patience watched our every motion with that vile, uncomplaining impoliteness which is so truly The Innocents Abroad
- Don't sit there moaning and complaining about all the work you've got to do.
- Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard.
- She's also complaining of back pain and looks very unwell. The Sun
- The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.
- Dan's been complaining of severe headaches.
- We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz