"complaint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His mother vibrated nervously, and his father's winds grew so unruly that two of the golems came around to the cave to make their slow, peevish complaints.
- Zaum made a peevish complaint or two.
- She looked up from her work and uttered a peevish complaint.
- Hermione Hoby of The Observer expressed that "though [Stone's] mighty voice is technically irreproachable throughout, every track is attacked with all the timidity of a tsunami-enough to prompt the peevish complaint that force and feeling are not the same thing."
- Save for the occasional peevish complaint by Snagtooth, there was no talking as they worked: only the scrape of tusk and stamp of foot, the hissing of breath through upraised trunks.
- 1 Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up.
- Most remarks addressed to staff members are peevish complaints.
- The role of the spoiled family cat Snowbell (Mr. Lane) has been beefed up, and Mr. Lane turns the character's every peevish complaint into an amusing comic barb.
- Trewan at once brought forward a set of peevish complaints, while Aillas looked on and listened in slack-jawed wonder: how could Trewan be so insensitive?
- He whined a peevish complaint.
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