grouse
Example Sentences
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“He groused, ‘Look, we played straight Sousa marches in the last war, and we did all right, didn’t we?’
“I’m just saying it would be nice if we lived someplace where the closest first-run movie theater wasn’t seventeen hours away by train,” George groused.
From Literature
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It’s tempting to dismiss the statement as the normal grousing of a big industry about a government regulation.
From Los Angeles Times
One can almost hear Hawks grouse in response: “Rich? Profound? I was just trying to entertain people.”
They also groused about the growing ranks of venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and consultants crawling the grounds, trying to cash in on the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.