They're always kvetching about something.
a chronically resentful person who seems to look for things to kvetch about
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Field’s neurotic, kvetching energy and Pullman’s drawlingly laidback presence spark off each other to amiable and spontaneous effect — enough so to show up the contrivances in the film’s secondary characters and subplots.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 May 2026 After years of kvetching about the unfairness of playing in altitude at Coors Field, the new regime led by Paul DePodesta has begun to talk about turning the conditions into a home-field advantage.—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2026 And who among us is above some occasional kvetching about the season?—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2025 Blazy likes to remove himself from the studio for a few minutes between sessions, to allow the space to be reset and to give his design colleagues a chance to prepare, confer, or kvetch without him present.—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kvetch
Word History
Etymology
Yiddish kvetshn, literally, to squeeze, pinch, from Middle High German quetschen