uncomplaining
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
If anything, she’d be around to enjoy the praise for her decades of uncomplaining, hand-waving, national symbolism.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
The boy had found some crayons and painted his facemask with fangs and he trudged on uncomplaining.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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