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complainer

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com·plain  (km-pln)
intr.v. com·plained, com·plain·ing, com·plains
1. To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
2. To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
[Middle English compleinen, from Old French complaindre, complaign-, from Vulgar Latin *complangere : Latin com-, intensive pref.; see com- + Latin plangere, to lament; see plk-2 in Indo-European roots.]
com·plainer n.
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Noun1.complainercomplainer - a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining
grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner, bellyacher, crybaby
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
kvetch - (Yiddish) a constant complainer
Translations
complainer [kəmˈpleɪnər] n (= moaner) → râleur/euse m/f


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Everybody had a part either too long or too short; nobody would attend as they ought; nobody would remember on which side they were to come in; nobody but the complainer would observe any directions.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
But to me, Socrates, these complainers seem to blame that which is not really in fault.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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