The word 'kvetch' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a Yiddish word that has been adopted into English and is commonly used to describe someone who complains or grumbles constantly. Some examples of using 'kvetch' in written English are: - "My grandmother is always such a kvetch, she never seems satisfied with anything." - "I don't want to be a kvetch, but can we please move the meeting to a different time?" - "Jenny's constant kvetching about her job is starting to annoy her coworkers." - "I'm tired of listening to my husband kvetch about the weather every day." - "The restaurant received mixed reviews, with some customers kvetching about the slow service."
I'm relieved everything is so hunky dory in the health service that he can spare the time to kvetch about what Vicky Pryce puts on her stationery but I suspect the "vast majority of the public" are more scandalised by dodgy hospital death rates.
This makes time that frustratingly finite, unrenewable resource feel more precious.Being busy can make you rich, but being rich makes you feel busier stillDaniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas at Austin calls this a "yuppie kvetch".
So it's rather easy for an American in this case to kvetch about the pointless myopia of insisting on fairness.Mr Surowiecki does bolster his argument with an American example: mortgage relief to underwater homeowners.
But if [LVMH head Bernard] Arnault can amass a personal fortune of more than $21 billion by forcing me to display my underwear, then who am I to complain?I think we must admire Ms Weber stoic refusal to kvetch, but the indignity of having been forced to spend a month's salary on a transparent dress is simply too outrageous to bear.
Hubs of stodgy comfort food and crackling conversation, they became the place where generations of writers, theatrical agents, tailors and the rest would go to kvetch (grumble) and gossip.
That Moncrieff called Proust's book "Remembrance of Things Past," borrowing from Shakespeare, rather than anything close to a literal rendering of the title "In Search of Lost Time," is typical of what the translation's detractors kvetch about to this day.
Why would yuppies work so much and then kvetch about it?
He kvetches, therefore he is — and therefore he can make a film about it and kvetch some more about doing so.
Euripides, they love to kvetch ("every heroine a wicked lech!") If you'll be mine, I'll stop their yellin' — I'm a good girl! xo, Helen Agamemnon, of all the fellas who lord it over craggy Hellas I want you here, at my side — father, king, infanticide!
(It is easy, these days, to kvetch about the inaccuracy of forecasts, but such complaints are relative.
He is incapable of making an interesting mark.... Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning, roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular.
