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synonyms for complain
- accuse
- criticize
- denounce
- disagree
- fret
- gripe
- grumble
- lament
- moan
- object
- oppose
- protest
- ascribe
- attack
- beef
- bellyache
- bemoan
- bewail
- bitch
- carp
- cavil
- charge
- contravene
- defy
- demur
- deplore
- deprecate
- differ
- disapprove
- dissent
- expostulate
- fuss
- gainsay
- grieve
- groan
- grouse
- growl
- impute
- indict
- lay
- nag
- refute
- remonstrate
- repine
- reproach
- snivel
- wail
- whimper
- whine
- yammer
- find fault
- kick up a fuss
- look askance
- make a fuss
- sound off
- take exception to
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How to use complain in a sentence
But, I mean, I’m part of a Facebook group for my class, and a lot of Wesleyan upperclassmen have been complaining about kids, like freshmen, going around asking for parties.
As the city takes steps to repeal a 102-year-old law banning seditious language, new details about how police wielded the law paint a picture of random harassment and punishment for those who complained.
Those Ticketed for Seditious Language Say Their Only Crime Was Talking Back | Kate Nucci | September 9, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoDevelopers complain that titles waiting for App Store review sometimes take weeks to be cleared.
Apple’s App Store draws scrutiny in yet another country | Verne Kopytoff | September 3, 2020 | Fortune
It is pure metaphysics, he complains, that has lost contact with empirical reality.
Your Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics - Facts So Romantic | Sabine Hossenfelder | September 3, 2020 | NautilusThe venerable Bill Thurston was known to complain about the perversity which, by the end of his career, had produced Thurston’s theorem, which says that Thurston maps are Thurston-equivalent to polynomials, unless they have Thurston obstructions.
Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Laura Ball | September 2, 2020 | NautilusAnd it might be what Islamists complain about while sitting in their caves.
I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.
On the one hand, residents of these neighborhoods complain of over-policing.
When they complain that there is no future for them here,” she confides after a long pause, “I worry they are right.
“His wife went for the visit and suddenly started to complain about the cuts,” Guadalupe told The Daily Beast.
Did Joran Van Der Sloot Fake His Prison Shanking? | Andrea Zarate, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly in the pursuit of agriculture can the black man not complain that he is discriminated against on account of his color.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxTeachers often complain that they can never induce some of their pupils to ask questions on their tasks.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)He could not complain of the neglect of mankind, or of the ingratitude of those he served.
After a few days of excessive nervousness the most timorous among the women were heard to complain of the monotony of existence!
The Red Year | Louis TracyHaving at last regained the Emperor's favour, the Marshal had never again to complain of lack of employment.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
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