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Grumbler

Grumbler \Grum"bler\, n. One who grumbles.

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grumbler

n. A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer

WordNet
grumbler

n. a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining [syn: whiner, complainer, moaner, sniveller, crybaby, bellyacher, squawker]

Usage examples of "grumbler".

Grumbler stopped again, momentarily confused, angrily tempted to lob a magnapult canister across the broken terrain toward the impact, but the emissary ear reported no physical movement from the area.

Rowling, whose multivolume Harry Potter saga, when complete, will make all the grumblers, potshotters, and naysayers look even sillier than they look now.

Haral, as bloody-handed a follower of Nilsson as any and by no definition either a grumbler or a faint heart.

Beltane, and he liked to keep a personal eye on potential squabblers and grumblers.

As a member of a large crowd, as a soldier among soldiers, as one of six candle-bearing servants, as a drunkard among drunken mercenaries, as a grumbler among grumbling peasants, as a masked Venetian, as a mutinous soldier, and as one among six gentlemen who with six ladies had to provide a birthday party in the first act, a garden party in the second act, a funeral in the third act, and a merry reading of the will in the last act with numbers and with a chatting, joking, mourning, and joyfully animated background, Walter Matern, though not yet privileged to utter two consecutive sentences, was acquiring his first experience of the stage.

It wasn't the grumblers who spoke, but a merchant with grey at his temples.

Instead, he turned with interest to the next knot of grumblers, who were complaining about not being able to see very well.

Even the grumblers and mutineers were silent, owing to the ordeal they had gone through.

But the grumblers are of two sorts,--the healthful-toned and the whiners.