gripe

When Mary would gripe, she said, her dad would laugh or “just keep working.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

While I didn’t encounter any issues when contacting ExpressVPN’s support department, the biggest gripe regarding the negatives is just that.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

The union's main gripe is that total government spending on NHS dentistry in England has been falling over the past decade, once inflation is taken into account.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Or for that matter, someone who needs his hand held all the time—a common employer gripe about recent grads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Mark would gripe so much that he'd make everyone miserable.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Though his wife and I had been in the same women’s book group, I’d known Eric only through the wry gripes we’d all made about our husbands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

His years of fielding phone calls from clients, listening to their hopes and their gripes, taught him how players’ personalities fit together—how to build a team, in an era increasingly governed by individual numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the shadow docket, and the justices’ increasingly public intramural snipings and gripes.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

This was an increase from just over 70,000 in 2020-21, with one of the main gripes about poor response times.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

He didn’t have too many gripes about them— as parents went, they were pretty decent.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Actors Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra griped about the smog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Some traders had griped that such markets were a sucker’s game because the shows are usually recorded before a studio audience several hours before airtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Neither of these merit calls to the Federal Communications Commission, but past complainants griped about less.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026

“The system here is broken on many levels,” she griped in a statement.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

Johnson griped, “That military genius, McNamara, has gone dovish on me.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The 56-year-old native of upstate New York left his first term on the board prematurely in 2011, griping over policy differences.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026

All told, three games featuring six teams that were all in playoff contention were decided on the final snap—with two coaches left griping about the NFL rulebook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

This mostly came in the form of griping that Michelle Obama was allowed to criticize him: "Obama, his wife was very nasty to me. That was not nice."

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

I am not griping about publicity for myself.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey