All beefing synonyms
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B b verb beefing
- deprecate β If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- whine β to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger.
- demur β If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- impute β to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- remonstrate β to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- criticise β criticize
- find fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- kick up a fuss β (Idiomatic) To show annoyance, or to complain loudly about something, often when it is of little importance in reality.
- look askance β glance sidelong or with suspicion
- make a fuss β complain about sth
- sound off β the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- take exception to β object to sth
adj beefing
- cantankerous β Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- crabby β Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cranky β If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- disconsolate β without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- doleful β sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
- grievous β causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- grumpy β surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- lamenting β to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- lugubrious β mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- out of sorts β a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- pathetic β causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- piteous β evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pitiful β evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- rueful β causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight.
- woeful β full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- wailing β to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- grousing β to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- saddening β causing someone to become sad
adjective beefing
- woebegone β beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.