repine
verb (used without object)
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
have repined
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present perfectof repine.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Had there been a wedding guest present, he would hardly have repined in not being able to obey the summons of the loud bassoon.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
He freely emptied his pockets at my bidding, and restored to me the gold, for the loss of which I never should have repined.
From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins
Mr. Cartwright, I fear that I have not been hitherto sufficiently mindful of this, and that I have repined where I ought to have blessed.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Had it been to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, I should not have repined.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
