Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an uncomplaining manner; without murmuring or complaint.
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- adverb In an
uncomplaining manner.
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- adverb without complaining
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Examples
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She uncomplainingly dragged costume hampers through the car park and didn't flinch – even though she was dressed in money, with the cash fees for her performances in La Traviata secreted all over her strapping body – when soldiers pointed machine guns at us.
Dame Joan Sutherland: an appreciation Peter Conrad 2010
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Perhaps Ana had been thinking of those words when she followed me uncomplainingly to Andalucia.
A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons 2010
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I, Howard, must play our parts and play them bravely and uncomplainingly — you as well as I, but I even more than you.
THEFT 2010
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Bearing uncomplainingly, for years, bodily infirmities which would have utterly discouraged others, he worked for our welfare unceasingly.
Time Capsule: August 8th, 1920 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Bearing uncomplainingly, for years, bodily infirmities which would have utterly discouraged others, he worked for our welfare unceasingly.
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It's still light, but they lie down uncomplainingly, I quickly read Jonah a story, and off they drift.
I was dad for a day 2011
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'A chap who would willingly spend two years in deepest Africa searching for the ultimate cup of coffee, yet who would uncomplainingly partake of the vile brew we were served that night, in the boudoir of the most notorious libertine and socialite of the age; such a man was, quite unmistakably, a fellow spirit.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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A Germany that wants once again to be a "normal" country is not a nation that will uncomplainingly consent to the perpetual southern shift of its income and wealth, which is the only alternative to default other than devaluation, unavailable to euro-zone countries.
Global Banking Is What's Really in Crisis Irwin Stelzer 2011
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My grandfather's brother, Bobby, came to live with them, followed by her cantankerous father-in-law, and she cooked and cleaned uncomplainingly for all of them.
A Conversation with Hillary Jordan, author of the debut novel, Mudbound 2010
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Bearing uncomplainingly, for years, bodily infirmities which would have utterly discouraged others, he worked for our welfare unceasingly.
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