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gripe

verb as in complain

verb as in pain, annoy

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With conference about to start, it's almost a Tory tradition to fill the papers and podcasts with gripes about the party leader.

From BBC

Her gripes with the network and the other TV personalities segued into a tirade against the left, which she said “understands everything in a way different than myself.”

Are you going to sit on the radical left side of your sofa and gripe about what’s happened to your country, or get with the program and try to do a few pushups?

He never griped that he was pitching on short rest, or pitching with a bum arm, or pitching with a terrible offense and an untrustworthy bullpen.

It’s just a lot of griping about any exhibit acknowledging that people other than straight white men did stuff, or hinting at history being more nuanced than 5-year-old’s picture book.

From Salon

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

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