Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bemoans.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who bemoans.

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  • noun One who bemoans.

Etymologies

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bemoan +‎ -er

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Examples

  • (I'll leave aside Lithwick's ongoing effort, which Jonathan Adler has aptly remarked on before, to reposition herself from her previous role as a perpetrator of the "vicious slash-and-burn character attack" to her new role as a hypersensitive bemoaner of any criticism of nominees.)

    Bench Memos 2009

  • When a communist Oswald snuffed out JFK, the anti-anti-communists in the Democratic Party completed their takeover of the party; snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam; nominated and elected a bemoaner of our "inordinate fear of communism"; appeased communists in Nicaragua; and, publicly and surreptitiously aided and abetted the Soviet-desired nuclear freeze and opposition to intermediate missiles in Europe.

    race42008.com 2009

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