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View definitions for gripe

gripe

noun as in complaint

verb as in complain

verb as in pain, annoy

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Example Sentences

It would be ludicrous to gripe about Louis-Dreyfus winning again for her work in Veep.

My big gripe with the old TV shows was their reliance on predictable formulas.

Later, another senior NCO chased me down the hall to gripe about how my pants met my boots.

Well, I have a gripe with the pope, was a bit disgusted, and was struck by his radical views.

The gripe is much older than the bloggers and tweeters who are its latest targets.

Peer Khan uttered the fatal words, and Ghuffoor Khan wrestled out his last agony under my never-failing gripe.

The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers.

It was safe enough for a high-ranking labman to gripe about Security—in fact, it was more or less expected.

What has posterity done for us / That we, lest they their rights should lose, / Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

It is weaker than Barbadoes or even hepatic aloes, and is more apt to gripe, &c., than the latter.

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On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gripe, such as: ache, grievance, objection, aching, affliction, and disorder.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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