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complaining

/kəmˈpleɪn.ɪŋ/ nom B1

En français : plainte

  1. The act by which someone complains; a complaint.

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Another Fox passing by heard his cries, and coming up, inquired the cause of his complaining.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 48 · B2
“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.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 9 · B2
“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!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 64 · B2
It is not of peculiar, but of general evils, which I am now complaining.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 261 · B2

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