1 to complain continuously about something in a way that is annoying:
Employees also have griped that some 130 of the city's top-paid officials get free downtown parking.
Instead of griping about how intolerable this situation is, people should follow your example and just leave.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, gripe that junk mail requires some 4 million tons of paper, nearly half of which lands in the trash unopened.
Valdez had come face to face with a phenomenon that industry critics have been griping about for years.
"Florida ain't ranked in the Top 25, and they're on TV every Saturday," he gripes.
My only gripe is that there are few 'general' papers and nothing on numerical modelling and thus the volume is heavily weighted towards case studies.
My only gripe was to question the wisdom of placing a technical chapter at the beginning of the book.
I have other gripes, but on balance the book is a very worthwhile piece of work.