Thesaurus / grousing
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other words for grousing
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
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How to use grousing in a sentence
From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet.
HUNDREDS OF NEW GENOMES HELP FILL THE BIRD ‘TREE OF LIFE’JAKE BUEHLERNOVEMBER 17, 2020SCIENCE NEWSMavis, sitting on one of the lockers, and listening to the general grousing going on around her, shook herself impatiently.
A FORTUNATE TERMANGELA BRAZILGrowling and grousing and his eye all bloodshot from the drouth is in it and the hydrophobia dropping out of his jaws.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEThis 'ere bloke you're grousing at 'e's a friend of mine, and I'll pipe up for a friend when 'e's being reprimanded undeserving.
ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUS"Oh, some people find cause for grousing, no matter how good their luck is," Jim answered.
BACK TO BILLABONGMARY GRANT BRUCEBut soon they settled down to do their job, to take trouble over their work rather than make trouble by grousing over it.
SKETCHES OF THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGNROBERT VALENTINE DOLBEYSome of the fellows who were doing so much grousing last week ought to have come along today and seen some real football.
LEFT GUARD GILBERTRALPH HENRY BARBOURThis is not incompatible with the "grousing" or grumbling which the Englishman regards as his prerogative.
WITH OUR SOLDIERS IN FRANCESHERWOOD EDDYHe muttered and grumbled to himself about the risk, and his grousing got on our nerves even worse than usual.
PROBLEM ON BALAKROGER D. AYCOCKAnd so fell to abuse of one another, finding fault and grousing; as all good British soldiers do when they are well off.
THE ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PATGEORGE PEARSONSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 20, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO GROUSING
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy irascible
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.