What is "grousing"

Usage examples of "grousing".

It's true, our men have been grousing a lot—but that's just due to the unaccustomed exertions of this forced march.

She did it by slow degrees, moaning and grousing while still more asleep than awake, frowning and pouting, and moving against him as if trying to sink herself deeper into him so she wouldn't have to wake up at all.

Leaving Jane stretching and grousing on the bed, Grant got up and opened the shutters, letting the rosy light pour into the room.

He'd heard the other three members of the team grousing about her, calling her "the Beauty Queen," and their tone hadn't been admiring.

For all his grousing about foot-soldiering, the man had instantly slid from his horse and kept fighting afoot.

In its place came insults and derision, mockery and ridicule, grousing and complaint—in short, all the mechanisms by which blooded veterans seal their comradeship.

Not this pampered, spoiled, arrogant, whining, complaining, grousing, thoroughly obnoxious young royal snot.

Having recovered his physical if not his emotional equilibrium, Hawkins was sitting waist-deep in the warm salt water, grousing angrily to himself.