Thesaurus / complaining
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The government agencies charged with enforcing labor laws don’t investigate because nobody is complaining.
THE STOLEN CHILDHOOD OF TEENAGE FACTORY WORKERSBY MELISSA SANCHEZNOVEMBER 20, 2020PROPUBLICAShe messaged a friend to ask whether any of her classmates had complained.
VIRGINIA CHEMISTRY TEACHER ASKED STUDENTS TO INSERT ‘NEON . . . NECK’ TO DESCRIBE HOW GEORGE FLOYD DIEDHANNAH NATANSONNOVEMBER 19, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIf nobody complains, there is rarely proactive investigation or enforcement.
INSIDE THE LIVES OF IMMIGRANT TEENS WORKING DANGEROUS NIGHT SHIFTS IN SUBURBAN FACTORIESBY MELISSA SANCHEZNOVEMBER 19, 2020PROPUBLICAIn January, several women came forward as a group to complain about his behavior.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH WOMEN WHO REPORTED SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY FORMER PROVOSTSUSAN SVRLUGANOVEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POSTRattled by the letter, Rhine complained to Jung, who tried to track down the critical piece but found no evidence of its existence.
THE SYNCHRONICITY OF WOLFGANG PAULI AND CARL JUNG - ISSUE 93: FORERUNNERSPAUL HALPERNNOVEMBER 18, 2020NAUTILUSIn early 2018, Apple confirmed it had been intentionally throttling the speeds of some older phones to avoid battery-related problems and offered cheap battery upgrades to extend the life of many handsets after customers complained.
APPLE TO PAY $113 MILLION TO SETTLE CLAIMS OVER IPHONE ‘BATTERYGATE’VERNE KOPYTOFFNOVEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNEWhen she first complained about Clarkson’s behavior, she didn’t necessarily want it to become public, she said, only for the invitations and messages and visits to stop.
JUNIOR STAFFER SAYS TOP ALASKA OFFICIAL TOLD HER TO KEEP ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT SECRETBY KYLE HOPKINS, ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWSNOVEMBER 18, 2020PROPUBLICAAfter the developer complained publicly, Apple said the app could stay as long as it followed other app-review guidelines.
APPLE TO CUT APP STORE FEES IN HALF FOR MOST DEVELOPERSVERNE KOPYTOFFNOVEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNEShe complained that the tweets weren’t labeled quickly enough and that their language was too weak.
SENATORS ATTACK FACEBOOK AND TWITTER OVER LABELING ELECTION MISINFORMATIONDANIELLE ABRILNOVEMBER 17, 2020FORTUNEI have in all my years doing a sex advice column only heard two complaints from men who were complaining about breasts getting in the way.
SEX IN FRONT OF STRANGERSEUGENE ROBINSONNOVEMBER 15, 2020OZYWORDS RELATED TO COMPLAINING
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
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