uncomplaining
Britishadjective
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It is difficult for Spaniards to face up to the fact that they lived, largely uncomplaining, under an autocrat for 36 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“It’s part of why I love our country. Not just the beauty – or the football - also the sort of quiet, uncomplaining resilience. The togetherness of the countryside. That is the best of British.”
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
Princess Anne has already played pinch-hitter for her brother Charles since he began treatment, but she’s 73 and already one of the busiest members of the family — a notoriously uncomplaining workhorse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The story of children financially supporting their immigrant parents can feed into the myth of the Asian American model minority, which, in part, stereotypes Asian Americans as obedient, hard-working and uncomplaining.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Yet Phineas is alert, uncomplaining, and still telling anyone who'll listen about the accident.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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