GROUSING Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

grousing

verb

present participle of grouse

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely hasn't stopped grousing since we started this vacation

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Recent Examples of grousing These are songs meant to be played live in the club, intended to get kids dancing and adults grousing. — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026 Like all utilities, ComEd comes in for plenty of grousing as a matter of course, but would anyone in northern Illinois prefer that NIPSCO were their utility these past two weeks? — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 Complaining about Oracle Park’s cozy 3rd and King streets footprint feels like grousing that Lombard Street has too many turns—that intimate, bayfront setting on McCovey Cove is precisely the point. — James Ward, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 For every grousing old-timer who felt that Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was contaminating the genre came another who expressed sheer joy that such a show even existed. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 For all of you grousing that the Broncos could have just drafted a player like Waddle, Payton has not developed his Nik Bonitto on offense as Vance Joseph has on defense. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026 In the movie’s first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers—the older is eleven, the younger eight—loll in front of their family’s house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026 Here, Lee gets at the crux of his self-satire, as well as the grousing anti-capitalism of Kurosawa’s original movie, in which the protagonist has also let business cloud his moral judgment. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025

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The sport is now on TV every night of the week these days—and unlike some traditionalists, football-loving families aren’t complaining.

— Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026
Even before the eighth inning on Sunday, Flemming spent a great deal of time complaining on the WEEI broadcast.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of complaining

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For now, however, the company that produces Flock cameras is holding off on technology that can register screaming and perhaps even speech.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Harry Styles didn’t need to name-drop Taylor Swift to get his Madison Square Garden crowd screaming.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of screaming

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