complain
verb (used without object)
to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault.
complainingly
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a word derived from
complain.
Example Sentences
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Annoyed Senators, with other fish to fry, were herded complainingly out of offices and cloakroom and onto the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You have killed me," he cried over to me complainingly, as if he had been a good friend come to pay me a visit, to whom I had done a treachery.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"I was going up, anyway, to get these hot things off," Jane said, complainingly.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
"She looked at me like that last night," said Gwynne, complainingly.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
The air was sultry; without, in the garden, the nightingales called complainingly to each other, and a sobbing west wind beat against the window panes.
From Four Phases of Love by Heyse, Paul
