Grumbling
['ɡrʌmblɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; 'the rumbling rolling sound of thunder' .
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grumble
Editor: Wilma
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Complaint, murmuring, repining, fault-finding.
Checker: Rowena
Examples
- However, this was as good a road as we had found in Palestine, and possibly even the best, and so there was not much grumbling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was speaking, but I could not hear what she said, nor could I make out the low grumbling of his reply. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It won't do to begin making a fuss about one, said Mr. Vincy, wishing to combine a little grumbling with domestic cheerfulness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It appears to me,' said Mr Boffin, grumbling over the fire in an injured manner, 'that the right is with me, if it's anywhere. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- After another silence, the husband of the absent woman, turning to me again, answered me with his usual grumbling unwillingness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was no talking back, no dissatisfaction about overcharging, no grumbling about anything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then he began grumbling again: With your flying into the face of your own wittles and drink! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Dundas and Lambton followed us, the latter still grumbling and very sulky. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A while after dinner, Amelia timidly expressed a wish to go and see her mamma, at Fulham: which permission George granted her with some grumbling. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This consideration seems to have its effect on the boy, for he goes out grumbling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Dolloby, not without some grumbling, gave ninepence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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