complainer

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Noun
  • The preview also ends with a baby's cry, offering yet another possible plot clue.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • When Eleanor gives birth to a baby named Lily and—in Ruth’s eyes—proves unfit to care for her, Ruth decides to raise the girl alone.
    Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Choose from a variety of wild Alaskan crab legs or domestic crab claws.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 May 2025
  • Their reception included several tributes to Ms. Dennie’s Caribbean roots and Maryland upbringing, including music from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and crab cakes made with Old Bay Seasoning.
    Shivani Vora, New York Times, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Officials also noted a dog was recently killed by a bear near a person, and there were signs that a bear had entered the home itself.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
  • The park also states people should keep a distance of at least 100 yards from bears and wolves.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • This is the gold star of silent crybabies, heaped high with silent scorn, disapproval and frustration, all at once.
    John Bowe, Contributor, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The ‘crybaby’ gesture was recalled by Madrid supporters when Mallorca lost last season’s Copa del Rey final on penalties to Bilbao’s Athletic Club and a disappointed Maffeo was in tears afterwards.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Fittingly, McNally’s ascent began with the crank of star-making machinery.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • But af Klint might have just as easily faded into obscurity, her work forgotten, her spiritual messages dismissed as a crank’s.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 23 May. 2025.

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