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grouses 1 of 2

noun

plural of grouse
as in whines
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment a forum in which employees can air their grouses

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grouses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of grouse
as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely hasn't stopped grousing since we started this vacation

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Recent Examples of grouses
Noun
That standard still holds for his frequent barrages of boasts, insults, threats, grouses and indecipherable dispatches via Truth Social. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
Keep that in mind when Oz grouses about the money the government is funneling to UnitedHealth and other big insurers. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Grace, in turn, grouses about his new roomie in a series of video diaries, which will be sent back to Earth. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026 Nobody grouses about waiting for two scoops of a banana-and-peanut-butter concoction called Fat Elvis. — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grouses
  1. complaints
  2. complains
  3. grievances
  4. screams
  5. moans
  6. whines
  7. laments
Noun
  • Sturridge’s speech was one thing, but there will be more serious complaints from Brazil if people feel their great hope is being overlooked.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney's office, paving the way for prosecutors to decide if Musk should be charged.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of complaints
Verb
  • There’ll always be someone who doesn’t like it, who complains about it.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Erin then complains about her daughter and drones on about all sorts of things that no one can even pretend to care about.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of complains
Noun
  • Food price spikes can also exacerbate grievances and lead to riots that destabilize governments; anger over hunger, for example, set the conditions for the Arab Spring protests.
    — Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But online, snippets of the Ontario fire videos are being shared, fueling grievances over the growing cost of living and stagnant wages.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of grievances
Verb
  • The 30-year-old former France international has spent most of his career on the wing and hardly screams ‘oven-ready solution’ either.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Hathaway screams into a walkie talkie, encouraging them to jump out of the building.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of screams
Noun
  • Wails and moans of grief interspersed the chanting, until the small coffin was lowered into the grave.
    — Victoria Davies, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
  • On the second call, the medical alert company employee connected a local 911 call-taker to audio from the home, where the woman's moans of pain and threats by a man could be heard.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of moans
Verb
  • At one point, when Reagan suggests sharing missile-defense technology, Gorbachev stands up and whines about how America will not even share dairy technology so that the Soviets can provide milk to their children.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The snippet ends just as the cat whines and tucks its head beneath the barrier, not far from the officer filming the scene.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Definition of whines
Noun
  • The other main track of Diamanda’s career is her interpretations of old standards, Gospel songs, laments, and folk tunes.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Her laments are now laced with fury, as genocidal wars and murderous technologies join global warming in the twenty-first century’s third decade.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of laments

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