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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of complain of in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of complain of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of complain of in a Sentence

  1. Joseph de Maistre:

    Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

  2. Hazlitt:

    The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

  3. Ashley Wright:

    My daughter was in good spirits that morning. She didnt complain of a headache.

  4. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Murderers sow death, and complain of the desert. (Meurtriers sèment la mort, - Et se plaignent du désert.)

  5. Samuel Johnson:

    A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

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    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A affront
    B embellish
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