Definitions for complaint

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complaint com·plaint

Spelling: [kuh m-pleynt]

IPA: /kəmˈpleɪnt/

Complaint is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 618 anagrams from letters in complaint (acilmnopt).

Definitions for complaint

noun

1. an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding:
2. a cause of discontent, pain, grief, lamentation, etc.
3. a cause of bodily pain or ailment; malady:
4. Law. the first pleading of the plaintiff in a civil action, stating the cause of action.

Origin of complaint

1350-1400; Middle English compleynte Middle French complainte Latin com- com- + plancta plaint

Examples for complaint

There was a curious mixture of complaint and satisfaction in Dick's tone.

The complaint continues, “During this period of time, defendant escaped police custody.”

Such a course is frequent and would not give the right of complaint to anybody.

The first comer utters his complaint of humiliation before him.

“Defendant moved his hands in a manner so as to avoid the application of handcuffs to his wrists,” the complaint says.

No one has seen him shed a tear, of heard him utter a complaint.

In January 2013, the TRN group filed a second complaint in the Dial Global suit, demanding a jury trial.

A Republican activist filed a complaint that Perez was ineligible because he had only joined the Maryland bar in 2001.

He has received no reply from the government to the complaint he sent.

She made no complaint of him, and even spoke of him as generous.