Similar words: complaining, uncomplaining, entertainingly, complain, complaint, complainer, complain of, complainant. Meaning: adv. with complaints.
(1) Why me?'he asked complainingly.
(2) She did her work, but she did so complainingly.
(3) "You always walk too fast for me, " she said complainingly.
(4) "If the boys do anything clever, you call them your good sons, " said his wife complainingly, " and if they do anything stupid, you call them my foolish ones. "
(5) The eyes, weasel - like and cruel, were looking at him complainingly.
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