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complaint

A complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction A complaint is a small medical problem. He had a skin complaint and so went to the doctor for advice.

complaint

(= ailment) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining an expression of grievance or resentment (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based (= charge) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense he was arrested on a charge of larceny

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Topics complaint topics

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Simple sentences

If it annoys you so much, file a complaint.
Tom decided to file a complaint against his neighbours.
Through whom am I to make my complaint, then?
Do you have any complaint about it?
The official could not deal with the complaint himself.
You're wasting your energy. Your complaint is groundless.
I would lodge a complaint.
If I do not get the item this week, I will make a complaint to PayPal.
I'd like to file a complaint.
I don't want to hear another complaint about you.
He filed a complaint.
I should make a complaint.
Tom has already filed a complaint.
Is that a complaint?
I am sick of your complaint.
I want to file a complaint.
I want to make a complaint.
I want to lodge a formal complaint.
We've had a complaint.
We try to follow up on every complaint.
Tom lodged his complaint with the manager.
Does anybody else have a complaint?
That's the only complaint I've received so far.

Movie subtitles

I want to lay a complaint.
Each complaint costs us money we don't have.
Or rather, the magazine is being sued, but you're named in the complaint, which was filed by a Ms. Morgyn Stanley.
According to the complaint, your article outed her identity.
The gentleman has a complaint?
Yes, I have a complaint. I think it's a perfectly fair complaint.
Are you willing to swear to a complaint for this guy's plugging you?
Somebody has registered a complaint.
I've just seen the complaint.
The old complaint?
You see, this afternoon an American arrived by plane and he has made a complaint.
I guess we're disturbing the peace if one took the trouble to make a complaint.
Has the complaint been lodged?
I want to register a complaint.
Nobody, and that's my complaint.
Yes, I have a complaint.
I think it's a perfectly fair complaint.
I want to lodge a complaint with the inspector. - He's not in.
And I'll write a complaint about you, you alcoholic!
The next complaint.
Drat the next complaint.
Let him make his complaint to Washington and he'll find that out!
I have a complaint. Czechoslovakia.
That's the second complaint I've had in five minutes.
I've taken thousands of women out and never have I had a single complaint.
The complaint department is on the third floor, Mr. Wilson.
Just swear out a complaint they took a poke at you and I'll throw 'em in the can.
Then we'll swear out a complaint against you and he'll have the lot of us.
My only complaint is that he didn't tell me about you.
We'll have to go down to the station house and make a complaint.
You can make the complaint, Mr. Hogarth.

News and current affairs

Their most telling complaint is that too little is known about how quantitative easing works, and that the Fed is therefore taking undue risks with the global financial system to achieve a modest juicing of the US economy.
Just recently, after the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of a European complaint, the US Congress had to rewrite billions of dollars of tax legislation.
Something similar to this complaint is now made by critics who say that countries like Indonesia and the Philippines are too sprawling and undisciplined to adopt democracy.
Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyers have sent a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Opposition candidates and parties were denied registration for the slightest formal complaint.
Almost all Serb opposition leaders agree with Djukanovic's complaint that the federal government is illegitimate because of this state of affairs.
Some in the country's parliament even asked whether the foreign minister should lodge a complaint in Washington.
Its adherents' main complaint was that the mainstream economics taught to students had become a branch of mathematics, disconnected from reality.
Their complaint was that the newfangled machines were robbing them of their wages and jobs.
This means that anyone residing in Austria can file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights, whose judgements are binding on the government.
The Philippines has filed a complaint against China with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Instead, women who go to the police are urged not to file a complaint.
A confidential complaint hotline enables workers to report human-rights violations; more than 300 calls have been received since 2011 (all were investigated, and the vast majority were resolved).
Their complaint: the course propagates conservative ideology in the guise of economic science and helps perpetuate social inequality.
Now, with many Europeans blaming the EU for painful austerity measures, that complaint has grown more powerful - and Europe's political leaders believe that they must act now to address it.
A woman who was allegedly raped by two policemen in September 2012 was charged with public indecency when she filed a complaint.
With the US politically paralyzed by the Republicans' infantile political tantrums, and Europe focused on ensuring the survival of the ill-conceived euro project, the lack of global leadership was a major complaint at Davos.
First-year women were ranked on their sex appeal, the complaint noted, and, most seriously, Yale failed to respond adequately to reports of sexual assault or attempted assault and stalking.
The students' complaint coincides with a federal investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which announced that it would review Yale's policies for dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault.

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