Synonyms for complaining
com·plain·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. complaining(a), complaintiveadjective

   expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment

   "a complaining boss"

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1. butthurt

   to get mad or complain of something

   jared got butthurt over a beaver name so he complained

   Submitted by rinat on March 27, 2016  

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1. complainingadjective

   Synonyms:
   querulous, murmuring, querimonious, fault-finding

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1. complainingadjective

   Synonyms:
   murmuring, repining, querimonious, querulous, discontented, grumbling

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1. List of paraphrases for "complaining":

   griping, whining, complainant, mooning, bitching, lamenting

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1. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   A lot of the people who are doing the complaining and saying, why isn't anything getting done -- maybe they ought to look in the mirror, what have they accomplished?

2. Stefanos Tsitsipas:

   The chair umpire was very incorrect in what he was telling me during the match, i dont know what this chair umpire has in specific against my team, but hes been complaining and telling me that my team talks all of the time when Im out on the court playing. Hes very I dont know. I believe hes not right, because I never hear anything of what my team says from the outside.

3. Jef Raskin:

   Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

4. Jessie Zheng:

   In the face of such a complex problem we can't be complaining about each other, or criticizing each other...We have to have everybody involved and work together to do it, in this battle it's you and me.

5. Tom Fitton:

   This material shows that the IRS‘ cover-up began years ago, we now have smoking-gun proof that top officials in the Obama IRS unlawfully harassed taxpayers just to keep them from complaining to Congress about IRS‘ targeting and abuse. No wonder the Obama IRS has had such little interest in preserving or finding Lois Lerner’s emails.