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moan
noun as in groan, complaint
Example Sentences
And in typical Fernandes style, his post-match interview wasn't wasted either, with a direct message for his team-mate and his critics: "Garnacho didn't celebrate because he thinks he has lost the faith of some fans. I told him people will always moan but lots of people like you. I told him to celebrate."
In future when people moan about all the creative players not being on the pitch together, he can say, "Tried that, 0-0 against Greece. Now what's your point?"
"When the emotion has got to come out, or you've got to have a big cry or a moan, you let out a noise, tsssssh, like a kettle letting off steam, and you're like, 'Oh, I feel so much better'."
"But there were other people in the trailer also moaning like Miriam Margolyes. You’re not alone when you moan."
Leather concurs: "It's how we respond to a crisis, there’s got to be a lot of gallows humour there – if we don’t have that and it’s cod-American, it’s not going to work. It has to be the British way. And we love to moan about trains!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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