(n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
(n.) Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
(n.) An ailment or disease of the body.
(n.) A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(2) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(3) The most common patient complaint before starting therapy was shortness of breath.
(4) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(5) The extent of the abnormality usually does not correlate with the patient's complaints.
(6) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(7) The early results up to 20 month after surgery in 11 patients are encouraging, especially according to subjective complaints.
(8) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
(9) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
(10) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(11) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(12) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(13) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(14) He came to our hospital with the chief complaint of discomfort of the anterior chest.
(15) A 58-year-old man visited the urological clinic in Prefectural Tohkamachi Hospital with complaint of swelling of bilateral scrotal contents.
(16) Méndez said that while his office was currently "getting so much business from the United Kingdom", the manner in which the country's government responds to complaints about human rights violations had what he described as a "precedent-setting potential" for other states.
(17) The complaint was rejected even though the handler did not have access to any information about the sale.
(18) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
(19) 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.
(20) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
Nitpick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Not to nitpick, but this is missing the point of prosecution entirely.
(2) Read more The Archers summed it up very neatly when Helen gave evidence, saying: “Rob told me what I could eat, what I could wear, even where I would have my baby.” In any relationship there will be criticism, nitpicking and rows – but they are not relentless, like this.
(3) Nitpicking around the edges of a tiny budget is not an arts policy.
(4) They were scenes of great jubilation and it feels like nitpicking to point out the victory songs did not extend to serenading Moyes.
(5) But they are also cautious, aware that more and more UK employers now resort to legal action, nitpicking strike ballots in the American fashion for procedural errors.
(6) He swatted away nitpicking questions of fact, whispering such sweet reason that even the formal reprimand from the official statistics watchdog over the misleading claim that quitting Europe would allow us to “have back” £350m in membership fees began to seem like just one more opinion.
(7) "The Lords' decision recognises the effort and care with which the Journal's reporters and editors produced the story, and the importance of giving news organisations an incentive to produce serious journalism on compelling subjects of public concern without the risk of nitpicking and second guessing by courts years later."
(8) Maurice Allen, the chairman of the Poundbury Residents' Association, said he felt that some of the people who are complaining about their homes were "nitpicking".
(9) Make sure we know Aside from increasing the percentage of votes he wins, the second thing that Sanders needs to do is increase public awareness of his wins (and minimise nitpicking coverage – like this article – which adds caveats to his successes).
(10) Called to account, Sean Spicer dismissed the resulting outrage as the grumbling of “nitpickers”.
(11) Is the endless aggro that cab drivers get from some passengers really just a desperate attempt to overcompensate for the impotence of the backseat, to assert superiority – if only by nitpicking about whether this really is the fastest route to the station?
(12) The country is safer for it.” Spicer also attempted to defend a security decision to detain a young child, insisting: “The point is that you that can go through and nitpick, this individual or this, but that’s why we slow it down a little and to make sure that, if they are a five-year-old, that maybe they’re with their parents and they don’t pose a threat.
(13) As such, it looks like nitpicking to point out the ways Hyperloop ignores the lessons of conventional rail projects.
(14) Then, warming to their task, the British army of eurosceptics and nitpicking economists pronounce that the real test will be Italy rather than Greece.
(15) It's easy to nitpick and say we should have moved say BBC3 here etc, but we are where we are."
(16) Above all, he needs to get to grips with a profound gap between a terrifyingly ambitious project to forever re-tilt the balance between public and private, and Labour politicians who only seem able to take one of three options – staying silent, taking issue with the coalition's plans only on the basis of nitpicking, or making internecine mischief.