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- I must except to your remark that there are no great novelists currently living
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- beef,
- bellyache,
- bitch,
- bleat,
- carp,
- caterwaul,
- complain,
- crab,
- croak,
- fuss,
- gripe,
- grizzle,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- growl,
- grumble,
- grump,
- holler,
- keen,
- maunder
- [chiefly British],
- moan,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- repine,
- scream,
- squawk,
- squeal,
- wail,
- whimper,
- whine,
- whinge
- [British],
- yammer,
- yawp
- (or yaup),
- yowl
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- we'll have to except members who haven't paid their club dues from voting in the election
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conjunctionSynonyms of except (Entry 2 of 3)
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prepositionSynonyms of except (Entry 3 of 3)
- the store is open daily except Sundays
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“Except.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/except. Accessed 24 January 2020.
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