Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With grumbling or discontent; in a grumbling voice or manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a grumbling manner.
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- adverb While or as if
grumbling
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was evident that he did not understand, but he withdrew his head, and grumblingly started his horse.
THE DESCENT 2010
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I grumblingly had to acknowledge that okay, yes, lemons can turn into juicy lemonade, and that once I changed my attitude, the frustration and anger evaporated.
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: The Secret Behind THE SECRET: Who Gets to Tell Your Story? Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010
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Parents grumblingly shell out their 15 pounds or so.
World War II Evacuee Halloween Costume: Offensive Or Educational? (PHOTOS, POLL) 2011
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"They still willingly countenance an antibourgeois life," said Falameezar grumblingly, but with less certainty.
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He can grumblingly set up the coffee machine, delaying his bedtime but ensuring a smoother return to consciousness the next morning.
Song of My Selves 2008
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He can grumblingly set up the coffee machine, delaying his bedtime but ensuring a smoother return to consciousness the next morning.
Song of My Selves 2008
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It is likely that the DNC Rules Committee will find (after great rancor) a solution to MI-FL no one likes, but most grumblingly accept.
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He can grumblingly set up the coffee machine, delaying his bedtime but ensuring a smoother return to consciousness the next morning.
Song of My Selves 2008
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He can grumblingly set up the coffee machine, delaying his bedtime but ensuring a smoother return to consciousness the next morning.
Song of My Selves 2008
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While Tony Blair "accepted, however grumblingly, that there was a certain reality about the way the world works," says Petersen, the SPD, like France's Socialists or Italy's leftist parties, "never made its peace with capitalism and the market economy, nor the competition and inequalities that go with it."
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