grouse
Example Sentences
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The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the modern workplace.
This might seem like get-off-my-lawn grousing from a critic who misses the good old days.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s not just grousing that these agencies sometimes deliver lawmakers bad news.
Young people grouse that employers are monitoring their productivity with “surveillance state technologies” and expect them to “do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek.”
Even when we grouse about our jobs, by the water cooler and over Slack, the complaint is rarely about working hard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
