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complained

verb

Past of complain

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The word 'complained' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to express dissatisfaction, annoyance, or resentment about something. Example: The customer complained to the manager about the poor service she received at the restaurant.

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He never complained.

Khaled al-Attiya, who has been trying to mediate an end to the political turmoil in Egypt, returned on Wednesday after several days in Cairo and complained he had not been able to meet all the parties he had been promised to see.

Ever since, the rapper has complained that Operation Trident has followed his movements, informing venues and record labels of his past in an attempt to shut down his musical career.

She complained she had even had to bring her own pillows to his trolley because the hospital had run out of them.

He complained about it earlier, the rocky state of commercial music, the sense of being on a doomed ship.

According to the press council adjudication, a Corby family supporter complained about the article and Rose claims to have left a message with the Herald denying that the network paid for her to go to Bali, but she received no reply.

"They come with an attitude – as if the bird is the most important thing in the world," complained one local in the pub.

Bloggers have also complained that the law's terminology is too vague, and wondered how the media watchdog could possibly hope to regulate all site users and reliably count their readers.

Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.

I grumbled to the council, then complained to a man in a lorry filled with sandbags who told me he wasn't authorised to give me any.

Passengers complained that the pop stars bombarded them with food and missiles.

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