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Complain

verb

(past & past part. complained; pres. part. complaining)

Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off. "She has a lot to kick about"

Make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge.

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"Complain" Quotes from Famous Books

... and he had to be carried home. But when Harry remembers the danger, and how near Johnny came to being run over, he does not complain. He can even watch the boys cheerfully, and clap his hands in joy as he hears their ringing laugh and ...

— The Nursery, December 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 6 • Various

... the first duties of a citizen is to vote. If we fail to vote we have no right to complain of the condition of affairs, and how our ...

— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell

... conclusion: "He who receives a fief unlimited by his ancestors, gives his heirs some reason to complain, if he does not transmit it unlimited to posterity. For why should he make the state of others worse than his own, without a reason?" If this be true, though neither you nor your father are about to do what is quite right, but as your father ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... work, over which he was so assiduous that even Hardock could not complain, and the latter soon after encountered ...

— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn

... the date at which she wanted to see him. Had she so worded her despatch he would have gone that very day; but there was nothing to complain of in her giving him a week's notice. Pure maiden modesty might have checked her indulgence in a too ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

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