complaint
noun
an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding.
countercomplaint
-
a word derived from
complaint.
Example Sentences
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Robinson, sued by the former employees on May 6, filed his countercomplaint Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
Both Leviss’ lawsuit and Sandoval’s countercomplaint center on an incident on March 1, 2023, where Madix allegedly went through Sandoval’s phone after it fell from his pocket during a West Hollywood performance with his band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Gray, who taught at John Cabot University in Rome, and Quillen met in D.C. in 2004, according to an account of their relationship in a countercomplaint Gray filed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
On Monday, Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers said that he had asked them to file a countercomplaint of slander against Ms. Banon.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
To offset Bourguiba's U.N. appeal, Pineau lodged a countercomplaint with the Security Council, charging, accurately enough, that Tunisia had permitted Algerian rebels to operate from Tunisian soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
