GRIZZLE Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

grizzle

verb

Definition of grizzle

as in to complain

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely the kind of person who wouldn't be happy if she didn't have something to grizzle about

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Recent Examples of grizzle This time, the ex-champ being wooed for his expertise is grizzled, grumpy Elliott, with Ving Rhames replacing the earlier film’s Hardy Daniel Kreuger. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025 While a number of draftees who heard their name called on Wednesday were teenagers, Carter is grizzled by prospect standards. — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024 Khan appears in his latest incarnation — grizzled with a goatee, an elder statesman returned to the screen. — Mallika Rao, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 Grizzlies are typically brown, though their fur can appear to be white-tipped, or grizzled, lending them their name. — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for grizzle

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That March, a seventy-year-old patient from a wealthy Cypriot family, Evie Lanitis, arrived at BioMed, complaining of a host of minor maladies, including bursitis in her toes, dental pain, and digestive issues.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
In the days before the spill was announced, residents complained of fuel-like odors pervading areas of Dubai and north.

— Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of complain

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A little girl pounding her fists and screaming; none of the visitors nor the staff were allowed to hold her to provide comfort.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Rays third baseman Junior Caminero screamed in the dugout after Milwaukee had rallied to tie the game.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of scream

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Unlike last year when Texas coach Steve Sarkisian whined about his non-conference schedule, his main complaint this year will be his conference schedule.

— Mac Engel October 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026
This contract then frees me, within the pages of the notebook, to do anything—to write or draw, or paint, to whine and complain, to plot and scheme—to fail or succeed without fear.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of whine

Verb

It's been a big few months for Austin Abrams moaning and groaning his way through some of the worst situations imaginable.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday.

— Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of moan

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