complain
verb (used without object)
to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault.
complainingly
-
a word derived from
complain.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Annoyed Senators, with other fish to fry, were herded complainingly out of offices and cloakroom and onto the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
In my day, however, the Great Three-Hundred-a-Year Marriage-Question was not yet broached, and gentlemen did not complainingly publish their rejections at the hands of the fair sex in the "Times" newspaper.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
“He ain’t never home no more,” he said, complainingly.
From The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery by Gertrude W. Morrison
Upon another day, the bees were swarming and great companies flew over the house, and the mother said complainingly, “Why do you never come to us that we may have honey?”
From Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India by Katherine Neville Fleeson
Then a voice behind him calls laughingly and complainingly: "How you hurry--do not make fun of me, I am tired--one moment, only one moment!"
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
