to gripe
38
5.6
- verb
- /ɡraɪp/
- Informal
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- She always gripes about the weather, even when it's nice outside.
- plaintiffs gripe
And, you know, if you're going to gripe about it, you're being sort of indulgent.
- And, you know, if you're going to gripe about it, you're being sort of indulgent.
- And what really, really gripes me is these companies in the UK aren't seen individually.
- People do bitch and gripe, and sometimes legitimately so, against the established order, against the way we do things, against society.
Examples
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Employees always gripe, it's part of being an employee.
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The way he's been griping to the front office, if I don't reach him today, I could lose the account.
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None of that made us want to quit; however, I never thought of griping to anyone.
Academic text (2016) -
And he's a graduate student, so he generally has lots to gripe about.
Fiction book (1998) -
Rick is always griping to me about how these different companies hide their money.
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Speaker, seven years ago, in my first PMQs, A Conservative Prime Minister told me to stop griping and get behind his rail investment plans.
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And, you know, if you're going to gripe about it, you're being sort of indulgent.
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For decades, young associates have griped about the grueling hours and work environment of the traditional "up-or-out" system.
Academic text (2000) -
So Texas defense lawyers gripe that the instruction effectively renders intoxication evidence meaningless.
Academic text (1998) -
"That's what comes of turning honest," he griped and flipped the sending switch on the comm-link.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To say you are unhappy about something and want it changed
311
8.1
To complain a lot in an annoying way
59
8.4
To complain in an angry way about something
41
3.7
To complain quietly in a low voice
23
6.7
Talk again and again about the same thing and annoy people
22
3.0
Complain loudly about something small
21
5.7
To complain about very small unimportant mistakes
15
8.0
To complain loudly about something you think is unfair
8
7.4
To complain about small unimportant things
8
9.6
To complain a lot in an annoying way
7
6.0
To complain loudly in a way that annoys other people
6
6.5
To keep saying the same complaint again and again until people get annoyed
6
4.1
To complain quietly about something you do not like
5
7.9
To complain about small or unimportant things
5
8.1
To complain in an annoying way about small things
4
9.9
To complain a lot about small things and annoy others
1
6.8
To complain a lot in an annoying way
1
7.3
To complain in a small, repeated way
Antonyms
How Intense
- Informal
70
4.8
- Informal
38
5.6
∞
1.0
41
3.7
177
1.0
140
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gripe comes from the same old word for 'to grab', like grip. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone 'holding on' to an irritation and saying it again and again, so to 'gripe' is to complain persistently.