moan

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If you can combine these two factors then no one is going to moan at them.

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Quick take

an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of moan gathered in one view.

noun

an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

verb

indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for moan.

noun

an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

verb

indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened"

Example sentences

If you can combine these two factors then no one is going to moan at them.

Sure, you can moan about it, but sometimes you have to suck it up.

* Don't bitch and moan about "woe is us, it's impossible".

Would men, their savings accounts bulging with useless money, moan, "I only wish I wanted an iPad more?

Most of the games whinge and moan if you're not plugged into the Internet, even if you want a single player campaign.

'So do political nerds get to moan because the author referred to Boehner as "the Senator"?

What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc?I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.

We all bitch and moan about all kinds of issues it has or features it lacks, but it's a gargantuous network that virtually everyone that I know or care to talk to is on it.

I wish it was more like the film Dave, inasmuch as that the president on his first day questions all the wrongs, and suggests to put them all right!People love a figurehead to moan and blame, but it's not ever as simple as that.

People will moan about it for days, but a year out they'll have found some other service and I'll be driving around Rome in my r8 dressed as Da Vinci eating as much of the world's best pizza as my stomach can handle, for the rest of my life.

I hear writers moan and wring their hands about the high-framerate version of The Hobbit, how it doesn't look "cinematic" or what have you but anecdotally, nobody I know had the kind of complaints you hear from film insiders.