1
as in baby
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
she early on got a reputation as a complainer after finding fault with her work space
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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
a chronic complainer
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for complainer
Noun
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Family welcomes arrival of new baby Evie 'The Bear' Season 4 cast Jeremy Allen White returns as head chef Carmy, a role that has won him two consecutive Emmys for.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
22 May 2025 -
My Strange Saga of Dating While Pregnant: Carrying a baby for my brother and his husband didn’t seem compatible with new love.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
Noun
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These included cooked shrimp, grilled chicken, imitation crab salad and spicy tuna.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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The solitary creatures consume upwards of 1,000 pounds of food per day, with their diet largely consisting of shrimp, krill, crabs and schooling fish, according to NOAA.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
Noun
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There are steps people can take to help prevent a bear encounter from becoming a bear attack.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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Only bears in human-bear coexistence landscapes showed this nocturnal shift.—
Lesley Evans Ogden,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
Noun
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This is the gold star of silent crybabies, heaped high with silent scorn, disapproval and frustration, all at once.—
John Bowe, Contributor,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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The ‘crybaby’ gesture was recalled by Madrid supporters when Mallorca lost last season’s Copa del Rey final on penalties to Bilbao’s Athletic Club and a disappointed Maffeo was in tears afterwards.—
Dermot Corrigan,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This old-fashioned instrument relied on a hand crank, as well as an outside metal canister that contained ice and rock salt to freeze its contents of milk, cream, sugar, and mix-ins.—
Joey Skladany,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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Still, Fauci proved willing, with time, to accept off-road researchers as collaborators, not cranks.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher.—
Bruce Handy,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2019
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The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.—
Justin Davidson,
Daily Intelligencer,
22 Feb. 2018
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In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 July 2024
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However, this trait can appear as a stickler for perfection, precision, fusspot, formalist, nitpicker, pedantic, and fastidious.—
Colleen Reilly,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2024
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“Complainer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complainer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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