0 past simple and past participle of grumble --
1 to complain about someone or something in an annoyed way: --
People have grumbled about provisions imposing accountability on auditors.
Certainly, the old system had been grumbled about by employers for many years, but they had got used to it.
It grumbled a good deal at first, but it has now got the matter simplified and at the moment is not grumbling much.
After all, in other connections certain benefits under the old scheme were discontinued and replaced by new ones, and some people grumbled about it.
I believe that he grumbled that we were not being political enough on this side.
Another farmer grumbled justifiably about the delays in obtaining decisions from the tribunal.
In effect, they grumbled about four aspects of the regulations.
Many nice old gentlemen travelling in a first-class warmed compartment grumbled if the train was a few minutes late.
