GROUSING Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

grousing

verb

present participle of grouse

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely hasn't stopped grousing since we started this vacation

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Recent Examples of grousing For every grousing old-timer who felt that Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was contaminating the genre came another who expressed sheer joy that such a show even existed. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 For all of you grousing that the Broncos could have just drafted a player like Waddle, Payton has not developed his Nik Bonitto on offense as Vance Joseph has on defense. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026 In the movie’s first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers—the older is eleven, the younger eight—loll in front of their family’s house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026 Here, Lee gets at the crux of his self-satire, as well as the grousing anti-capitalism of Kurosawa’s original movie, in which the protagonist has also let business cloud his moral judgment. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025

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Rodriguez said in a May phone interview with the Herald that detainees had been complaining when a guard approached him and told him to walk out of the cage where he and other men were housed.

— Churchill Ndonwie, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
These reviews are overall mixed with positive reviews praising USGB’s customer service and negative ones complaining about frequent marketing calls.

— Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026

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From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).

— Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026

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