uncomplainingly

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adverb

In an uncomplaining manner; not complainingly.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbuncomplainingly (comparative more uncomplainingly, superlative most uncomplainingly)

comparative more uncomplainingly · superlative most uncomplainingly

  1. In an uncomplaining manner; not complainingly.

    Then she would walk for hours, and though she had often to do so, Palmer would uncomplainingly draw rein, and slacken the horses' speed to her pace.

    1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 255
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    If I had the precedent, however, of others’ lectures on the subject of Book-keeping, to go by—a tract trodden, a way marked out—I would not preface my discourse with any remarks; being one of those who strenuously hold that every individual who solicits any portion of the public’s time, unexcusingly places himself before that public, uncomplainingly to receive their just sanction or bitter condemnation.

    1853, J[ohn] C[aldwell] Colt, “[Public Addresses.] An Address on Book-keeping by Double Entry, Delivered before a Public Meeting at Boston, Mass.”, in The Science of Double Entry Book-keeping, Simplified, Arranged, and Methodized, after the Forms of Grammar and Arithmetic; […], 45th edition, New York, N.Y.: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, […], →OCLC, page 227

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbwithout complaining

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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“uncomplainingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomplainingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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