complaining
/kəmˈpleɪn.ɪŋ/ noun B1- The act by which someone complains; a complaint.
Plural complainings
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Another Fox passing by heard his cries, and coming up, inquired the cause of his complaining.
“My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining that you could get no one to go halves with you, I thought that I had better bring you together.”
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
It is not of peculiar, but of general evils, which I am now complaining.
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