gripe
Frequently Asked Questions
- He always gripes about his old job—he should just move on.
- Quit your griping and just get to work!
- I have a few gripes about the way things were handled, but they’re pretty minor.
Example Sentences
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Gripe all you like that a Bach Passion has no place on the lyric stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2022
Gripe is too flippant a word for the appalling and insensitive fallout from the death of the 28-year-old striker – and pilot David Ibbotson – in January.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2019
Gripe Two, something I often see in reporting about cultural trends, is that reporting about real or potential busts mixes probable causes with the author's pet peeves or critical sense.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017
Gripe all you want about the “nanny state,” but sometimes it works to improve the public’s health.
From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2017
Gripe, gripe, the enormous thigh muscles tautened in two convulsions.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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