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What does complainingly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word complainingly? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a complaining manner; peevishly.
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Examples
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.
If you must break the habit of a lifetime,' said Mr Mifflin, complainingly, 'I wish you would wait till we get ashore.
The rich moved complainingly into well-fortified hotels, and the police and firemen helped themselves to the contents of bombed or abandoned homes.

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