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What does complainingly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a complaining manner; peevishly.
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The rich moved complainingly into well-fortified hotels, and the police and firemen helped themselves to the contents of bombed or abandoned homes.
If you must break the habit of a lifetime,' said Mr Mifflin, complainingly, 'I wish you would wait till we get ashore.
The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.
The eyes, weasel-like and cruel, were looking at him complainingly.
As the depression decade drew to a close, it must have been obvious to most observers that the Treasury Board's star was waxing, while that of the CSC-slowly perhaps, and complainingly, but nonetheless surely-was waning.

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