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View definitions for grumble

grumble

verb as in complain

verb as in murmur, rumble

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“Too soft, too stately,” a critic friend grumbled at Telluride.

Visual artists who labored on the Sphere project have justly grumbled that their sweat has gotten publicly dismissed as AI.

“It was all I could do to keep from slapping her for even asking that,” he grumbles.

“He’s old — like really old, like 80,” Josh grumbles to his mother, a scene-stealing Sarah Niles, who visibly disagrees: She looks at Sonny like a Popsicle on a hot day.

Some longtime Erewhon shoppers — yes, some of whom are influencers themselves — grumble on social media about the Erewhon tourists.

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

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