plaint
Example Sentences
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“What seemed to be political fanaticism,” he writes there, “was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of love.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023
Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023
These points are not the most cynical aspect of McConnell’s plaint, however.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2020
And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019
“Goodman Whittlesley, will you repeat your com. plaint for this assembly?”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
