as in complaints
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
had to deal with an angry customer with a beef about our service
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as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
he tends to stand around and beef for hours about any slight, real or imagined
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Recent Examples of beefs
Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Cash’s twist in Lost Lambs makes conspiracy a practice honed by young girls, the kinds of people at the center of Pizzagate and rap beefs and the Epstein files.
—Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
One of the president's biggest beefs with Greene was about her harping on Jeffrey Epstein.
—Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote the film, the star opens up about putting previous beefs behind him.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
However, Ja Rule also said rap beefs weren’t beneficial in any sense.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
But Americans polled also agree with industry beefs about the costs builders incur.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
The traditional papaya salad, noodles and sticky rice are served with angus beefs.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
Cash’s twist in Lost Lambs makes conspiracy a practice honed by young girls, the kinds of people at the center of Pizzagate and rap beefs and the Epstein files.
—Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Cash’s twist in Lost Lambs makes conspiracy a practice honed by young girls, the kinds of people at the center of Pizzagate and rap beefs and the Epstein files.
—Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
One of the president's biggest beefs with Greene was about her harping on Jeffrey Epstein.
—Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote the film, the star opens up about putting previous beefs behind him.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
However, Ja Rule also said rap beefs weren’t beneficial in any sense.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
But Americans polled also agree with industry beefs about the costs builders incur.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
The traditional papaya salad, noodles and sticky rice are served with angus beefs.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefs
Noun
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After days of deliberations, the House justice committee voted to dismiss the impeachment complaints filed by left-wing activists and a lawyer against Marcos.—
JIM GOMEZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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America First Legal, cofounded by senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, has peppered top companies with dozens of discrimination complaints and posted on social media seeking more White people to file legal claims.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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People tend to get involved once a problem becomes visible – when a price looks wrong, a transaction is flagged or a customer complains.—
Murugan Anandarajan,
The Conversation,
22 Jan. 2026
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In any work setting, there’s a person who sits around the table and complains about what’s wrong with the company, and then, when the boss walks in, that same person is over there pouring coffee, quiet as a church mouse.—
Willie Colon,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Bill Belichick’s resume screams one-way ticket to Canton, Ohio, but when he wasn’t voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, many were left flabbergasted on Tuesday night.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The 360-degree design also allowed for the crowd’s screams to echo and fill the entirety of the Kia Forum.—
Kristine Kwak,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Hamburg head coach Merlin Polzin had some grievances, too, though.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Lebanon and Syria have a complicated history with grievances on both sides.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But the willingness to include more artists leaves critics’, viewers’, and performers’ existing Grammy gripes feeling particularly egregious.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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His gripes are reasonable given UCLA was the only Big Ten team to play five of its first seven conference games on the road – a stretch in which the Bruins went 4-3, with each of their losses coming away from Westwood.—
Aaron Heisen,
Daily News,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The song eventually escalates into a lecherous, breathless, glittering climax of incandescent synthesizers and melodic moans—an erotic asphyxiation depicted as utterly glorious.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Two microphones angle towards the duduk to capture resonant moans, creaks, squeaks and honks akin to the bridge’s.—
Ruby Rosenthal,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Continue reading … WAR OF WORDS – AOC weighs in after Republican laments 'humiliation' of Mamdani campaigning in Arabic.—
,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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