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gripe

verb as in complain

verb as in pain, annoy

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He liked fast food and sports and, most importantly, he shared all their gripes and complaints and articulated them in the same terms some used themselves.

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Locals gripe that a flood of California tech bros and investors have remade it into a town of luxury towers and expensive cocktail bars.

The high cost of housing is one of residents' most common gripes about living in the city that never sleeps.

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She gripes, “Every day I’m just hoping that someone will die in an interesting way, so I’ll have something to write about.”

The regular gripes about transfers were followed by a desperate beginning to the season.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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