grouse

Example Sentences

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It’s not just grousing that these agencies sometimes deliver lawmakers bad news.

From The Wall Street Journal

Young people grouse that employers are monitoring their productivity with “surveillance state technologies” and expect them to “do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Even when we grouse about our jobs, by the water cooler and over Slack, the complaint is rarely about working hard.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was nothing I could grouse about, and I simply admired a good game played.

From Salon

Since the 1910s Egyptians had bemoaned the “notorious volatility of tomato prices” the way Americans grouse about fluctuating gasoline prices.

From The Wall Street Journal