Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who complains, laments, or bewails; a faultfinder; a murmurer; a grumbler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who complains, or is known for their complaints.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

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Examples

  • One complainer is someone I frequently quote, Anne Munoz-Furlong, founder of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN).

    Archive 2007-12-01 Steve Carper 2007

  • One complainer is someone I frequently quote, Anne Munoz-Furlong, founder of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN).

    Are Food Labels Giving the Right Info? Steve Carper 2007

  • If the complaint was that ethnic minorities were not represented as sexy, would we call the complainer fetishistic?

    Fatophobic Sex Scenes in The L Word 2005

  • If the complaint was that ethnic minorities were not represented as sexy, would we call the complainer fetishistic?

    Fatophobic Sex Scenes in The L Word 2005

  • It's eye-opening to hear him describe how he was forced to insert the following theme into every episode: The group is always right ... the complainer is always wrong.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Fidrych didn't complain - he's not much of a complainer, which is good.

    Freep.com - RSS 2009

  • The county justifies its bullying by pointing to a single complaint, but The Gazette's Freeman Blog revealed that the complainer was a disgruntled ex-firefighter who acknowledged the pancakes are perfectly safe.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The county justifies its bullying by pointing to a single complaint, but The Gazette's Freeman Blog revealed that the complainer was a disgruntled ex-firefighter who acknowledged the pancakes are perfectly safe.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The county justifies its bullying by pointing to a single complaint, but The Gazette's Freeman Blog revealed that the complainer was a disgruntled ex-firefighter who acknowledged the pancakes are perfectly safe.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The county justifies its bullying by pointing to a single complaint, but The Gazette's Freeman Blog revealed that the complainer was a disgruntled ex-firefighter who acknowledged the pancakes are perfectly safe.

    Gazette.com : 2008

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