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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as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
a chronic complainer
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Recent Examples of complainer
If family needs cause drama, set kind boundaries and explain them to any complainers.
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Recognize Quieter Customers Celebrate the non-complainers.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Recognize Quieter Customers Celebrate the non-complainers.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for complainer
Noun
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Des Moines birth centers helped deliver thousands of babies in 2025.—
Cooper Worth,
Des Moines Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged a Santa Monica woman with her baby girl's murder.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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At just below 60 feet, Dickie’s Reef is a haven for barracuda, parrotfish, butterfly fish, crab and lobsters.—
Adrienne Jordan,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Antipasti, insalata, and fritti follows, with dishes like lobster polpette fra diavolo, capellini crab AOP, and the new Mario’s Famous di Mare Salad.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Never mind the man himself, who, anyway, emerges as something of a whiner and malcontent.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Oct. 2025
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No one likes a draft-day whiner.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The guilds will have new, more specific asks, and industry anger around AI is still strong enough that the studios would be dumb to poke the bear any further.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2026
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The man was wearing a dark hat, left the store, and then about 20 minutes later returned to the same display case, this time wearing a bright orange bears hat, and allegedly stealing more.—
Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As children, Keaton often dismissed her younger brother as a crybaby, scaredy cat and a nuisance who was coddled by their mother.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
26 Dec. 2025
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From the instigator to the crybaby, everyone gets to partake in the seasonal chaos.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried Chicken.—
Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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This old-fashioned instrument relied on a hand crank, as well as an outside metal canister that contained ice and rock salt to freeze its contents of milk, cream, sugar, and mix-ins.—
Joey Skladany,
Southern Living,
16 Dec. 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
Cite this Entry
“Complainer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complainer. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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