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repine

verb as in complain

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Example Sentences

She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.

I will not pause either to accuse or repine.

“But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.”

Freeman called Lee “the Southern Arthur” who “accepted fame without vanity and defeat without repining.”

Yet I have no fears now: what is done is done, there can be no repining.

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

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