Complaint
[kəm'pleɪnt] or [kəm'plent]
Definition
(noun.) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based.
(noun.) an expression of grievance or resentment.
(noun.) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow.
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Definition
(n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
(n.) Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
(n.) An ailment or disease of the body.
(n.) A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Murmur, lamention, plaint, lament, wail.[2]. Malady, disease, ailment, ail, illness, indisposition, disorder, distemper, sickness.[3]. Accusation, charge, information against.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance,expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease
ANT:Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause,jubilee, health, sanity
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Examples
- I have no complaint to make. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What if my complaint be about to take a turn, and I am yet destined to enjoy health? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have told your ladyship that I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation if any complaint was made, and all is in strict confidence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Did they sit up for the folks at the Pineries, when Ralph Plantagenet, and Gwendoline, and Guinever Mango had the same juvenile complaint? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My Lady, with a disdainful gesture of the hand that holds the screen, assures him of his being worth no complaint from her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nobody has wrote a syllable to me concerning his making use of the hammer, or made the least complaint of him or you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr Merdle's complaint. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn had listened gravely to this complaint and inquires when the stationer has finished, And that's all, is it, Snagsby? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On the passage out I heard no complaint of their conduct. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her mother's mind. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A complaint of me,' said Mr Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I coom home wi'out a hope, and mad wi' thinking that when I said a word o' complaint I was reckoned a unreasonable Hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- My employer said, 'Mr. Jennings, I have no complaint to make against you; but you must set yourself right, or leave me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dear Ma'am, replied Elinor, smiling at the difference of the complaints for which it was recommended, how good you are! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The newspapers sent in frantic complaints, an investigation was made, and our little scheme was discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On every hand was heard the complaints of women, the wailing of children, and the cries of men. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Though those complaints produced no act of parliament, they had probably intimidated the company so far, as to oblige them to reform their conduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Here's my mother who never has anything of her own, except her complaints. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The gentleman who made the complaints informed me first of his own high standing as a lawyer, a citizen and a Christian. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It took hours of my time every day to listen to complaints and requests. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You may possibly have some idea, Miss Trotwood, of abetting him in his running away, and in his complaints to you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- About their complaints and their doctors do ladies ever tire of talking to each other? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I took no steps to answer these complaints, but continued to do my duty, as I understood it, to the best of my ability. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Complaints of that sort are sometimes made, about Ratcliffe and Wapping and up that way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Editor: Robert