"complaintive" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From complaint + -ive.",
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      "form": "more complaintive",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "complaintiveness"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1806, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Containing an Account of His Life and Writings:",
          "text": "The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Elwood Watson, Overcoming Adversity in Academia: Stories from Generation X Faculty:",
          "text": "On the Chroncicle Careers website, as well as other mainstream university education publications, I've read articles - some complaintive, some pleased - about how college education nowadays is so 'client-based'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July, L Meeuwesen, F Tromp, BC Schouten, JA Harmsen, “Cultural differences in managing information during medical interaction: how does the physician get a clue?”, in Patient Education and Counseling:",
          "text": "The majority of the medical conversations was traditional (37%) or cooperative (37%), while another 25% was more or less conflicting or complaintive in nature.",
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        "Tending to complain, characterized by complaining."
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          "complaining",
          "complaining"
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  "word": "complaintive"
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      "word": "complaintiveness"
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  "etymology_text": "From complaint + -ive.",
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    {
      "form": "more complaintive",
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    },
    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1806, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Containing an Account of His Life and Writings:",
          "text": "The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Elwood Watson, Overcoming Adversity in Academia: Stories from Generation X Faculty:",
          "text": "On the Chroncicle Careers website, as well as other mainstream university education publications, I've read articles - some complaintive, some pleased - about how college education nowadays is so 'client-based'.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July, L Meeuwesen, F Tromp, BC Schouten, JA Harmsen, “Cultural differences in managing information during medical interaction: how does the physician get a clue?”, in Patient Education and Counseling:",
          "text": "The majority of the medical conversations was traditional (37%) or cooperative (37%), while another 25% was more or less conflicting or complaintive in nature.",
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        "Tending to complain, characterized by complaining."
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