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Answer for the clue "Complaining about president is exciting ", 8 letters:
gripping

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Word definitions for gripping in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a gripping detective story ▪ The author describes in gripping detail the accident on the icy highway. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And parents also benefit from the much-needed peace and quiet a really gripping book can ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
catch the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating. n. (obsolete form of griping English) (qualifier: pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines) v (present participle of grip English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story" [syn: absorbing , engrossing , fascinating , riveting ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grasping the emotions," 1896, figurative use of present participle adjective from grip (v.).

Usage examples of gripping.

On the gripping hand, if they're too young and healthy they will escape and attempt to eat you.

She looked down at her plate and said, 'The gripping hand is, I'll never be more than a Maxroy spill.

The gripping hand is, we'd better sell our stock before the price drops.

The gripping hand was that we kept the simplicities of both for nearly everything.

One hand, other hand, gripping hand, and they shrug with their arms because their shoulders don't move.

I came staggering home at one in the morning, dead drunk and covered with blood, shook the old man awake and told him, 'The gripping hand!

The gripping hand is, is the blockade fleet ready to deal with several new Jump points?

She had a gripping hand on considerable territory when she died, a vast volume enclosing little mass, near to nothing valuable at all.

If they carry to us human guests and gripping hand on the Sister to trade?

That is, if you can hold the rest of the system in your gripping hand.

Still, Harlequin would see nothing to deny what Jennifer believed: that the power that held a thousand worlds in its gripping hand was coming down the Khanate's throat.

Then we will have a gripping hand on the vast resources offered by your Empire.

On the gripping hand, if they’re too young and healthy they will escape and attempt to eat you.

She looked down at her plate and said, ‘The gripping hand is, I’ll never be more than a Maxroy spill.

The gripping hand is, we’d better sell our stock before the price drops.