(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
(2) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(3) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(7) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(8) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(9) TGI was present in high titres in all five patients who complained about recurrent goitre.
(10) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(11) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(12) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(13) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(14) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(15) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
(16) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
(17) A 55-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital in January 1985 complaining of epigastralgia.
(18) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(19) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
(20) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
Whinge
Definition:
(v. i.) To whine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
(2) "Don't know what you are whinging about, I live in Reading, which has to be worse than London," writes a not-wrong Anton Lawrence.
(3) Controversies such as #Gamergate showed these crybabies that not only were people willing to listen to their performative whingeing, but positively indulge it.
(4) The whingeing begins as soon as they are free to speak.
(5) In the interests of full disclosure – and exhibitionism – I ruined the first time my boyfriend tried to ask me to marry him by spending a full evening whingeing about someone I was arguing with on Twitter.
(6) Business may whinge about legislation, and lobby furiously against it, but in the end - as in the case of Labour's windfall tax - they tend to submit when faced with determined legislators, especially when backed by public opinion.
(7) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
(8) "Between your moaning about early mornings and Dan Rookwood's RSI whingeing," notes Dave Holme, "anyone would think you had a tough job.
(9) Men who might once have faced lions for their faith are whinging about ridicule.
(10) It could be about vajazzling or threesomes or blowjobs; it could contain sex and therefore lighten the load of having to read a whinge.
(11) 49ers 6-0 Packers, 2:17, 1st quarter GB's D shows life, they bring down Kaepernick, contain Gore and then on third down, the Niners QB can't find Crabtree who is falling back into the endzone and whinging for a hold.
(12) Sir John Chilcot and his team should therefore cease whingeing about media attacks, set dates for the publication of their report and a deadline by which final comments should be received, and stick to that timetable irrespective of further complaints about wording from those to be criticised.
(13) The foreign secretary's Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, fuelled the row when he accused business of "whingeing".
(14) Eamonn Maloney objects: ""The IC" sounds like a province of California full of rich kids who whinge too much.
(15) His whinge in the column following the sentencing of the Facebook fools concerned the Notting Hill carnival (he's got a flat there).
(16) If you take this tool and embrace it rather than whinge, it’s amazing what you can do.
(17) But, as Perth coach Alistair Edwards commented after the match, “both squads have great character, you don’t see us whinging about all the travelling”.
(18) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
(19) I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it’s time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective whinge-o-rama that seems to be going on in some places,” he said.
(20) We know, because Shakespeare wrote it into the scripts, moreover as a whinge, that the however-many-hours-traffic of the original stage ended with a jig .