groused

"You told my chief of staff that it was urgent," Sir Harold groused.

"You bet it's only seniors who'll have any luck," groused Diana, who was still in the depths of despondency.

The men didn't seem overglad to see us, and groused a good deal about the extra crowding.

She groused, but submitted to the inevitable, and enjoyed herself very much when once she had made the plunge and started forth.

We groused at the amount of drills and night operations, to being hut orderlies, going on guard, and so on.

They groused about "the great days of Lovelace," and gave people like Rudd a most godless time.

Though they groused at the time, the girls laughed as they discussed these details over the eggs and bacon.

He was out of the danger zone again, and in a rest camp with his men, who "groused" at "fatigues" imposed upon them unreasonably.