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COMPLAIN

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complain verb intranzitiv

1. (of, about) a se plânge (de), a-şi exprima / a-şi arăta nemulţumirea (faţă de).

2. (poetic) a se jelui, a se tângui, a boci, a se căina.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I mean to complain to your husband.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"I can't help being natural," Messner complained.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

She complained a little of being tired, and I let her rest till later in the day.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Harriet did not consider herself as having any thing to complain of.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He did not mean to complain, however.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Then she discovered in what state of life the young lord had been born, and next morning complained of her wrongs to her father, and begged him to help her to get rid of her husband, who was nothing else but a tailor.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

His estate had been rated by Sir John at about six or seven hundred a year; but he lived at an expense to which that income could hardly be equal, and he had himself often complained of his poverty.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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