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complainingly

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Adv.1.complainingly - with complaints; "she did her work, but she did so complainingly"
uncomplainingly - without complaining; "an equally gallant little wife and mother uncomplainingly keeping up the production of tasty and nourishing meals"


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He mewed complainingly, a puzzled note in his voice.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
" Fred paused a moment, and then said, rather complainingly, "And she ought to acknowledge that I have worked in order to pass.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
And, as if these words, spoken calmly, had been the portent of misfortune, she answered with a loud wail that must have been heard across the yard in the pig-sty; for the pigs (the Bacadous had the finest pigs in the country) stirred and grunted complainingly in the night.
Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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