1
as in baby
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
she early on got a reputation as a complainer after finding fault with her work space
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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
a chronic complainer
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for complainer
Noun
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Police said the baby, whose identity was not disclosed, died. Williams was charged Aug. 12 with murder and arrested without incident, according to police.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
13 Aug. 2025 -
They're known as man's best friends, fur babies, pooches.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The crab shirt, and right, Barney's smiling reaction.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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These ranged from more than 30 new breakfast items and dishes like soft shell crab tempura bao buns in Red Ginger.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Hunters also got the OK to kill bears over a bait or feed station, a tactic forbidden in the last hunt, in 2015.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Aug. 2025
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One bear is allowed per permit, and the wildlife commission must be notified within 24 hours of a bear being taken.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Factual: League crybabies can decide who gets to play in their sandbox.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
3 Aug. 2025
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If whining were an Olympic sport, Finland, Denmark and Sweden might as well skip the competition, because the U.S. surely would sweep the podium with an elite lineup of crybaby football coaches.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There's German engineering at its heart courtesy of a Brose TF Sprinter mid-mount motor for efficient power at the crank, producing 90 Nm (66 lb.ft) of torque to help attack inclines.—
Paul Ridden
July 23,
New Atlas,
23 July 2025
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In short order a cottage industry of cranks and pseudo-experts arose, whose steady emission of contextless facts and unprovable assertions long ago seeped into the popular understanding of the bombing.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Noun
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But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher.—
Bruce Handy,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2019
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The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.—
Justin Davidson,
Daily Intelligencer,
22 Feb. 2018
Noun
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In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 July 2024
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However, this trait can appear as a stickler for perfection, precision, fusspot, formalist, nitpicker, pedantic, and fastidious.—
Colleen Reilly,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2024
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“Complainer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complainer. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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