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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of kvetch.

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Examples

  • At exchange operator Direct Edge, Chief Executive William O ' Brien decided to give all employees one floating holiday to use in 2011 after spokesman Rafi Reguer " kvetched " about the situation.

    Vacation Takes a Holiday: Calendar Quirk Puts Traders to Work Kristina Peterson 2010

  • He tells us how to employ cliché—with a twist, he suggests, as in the micro-memoir "I came, I saw, I kvetched."

    The Soul of Brevity Daniel Akst 2011

  • If you've ever kvetched about the way your state's late primary ends up being largely irrelevant year in and year out, and have suspected that the media had a large hand in that, congratulations!

    An Insider's Guide To 'How The Presidential Primary Process Actually Works' Jason Linkins 2011

  • She wriggled and kvetched, though she seemed happier in the Next Gen ep before that.

    committee meetings girliejones 2010

  • Ditto for such long-suffering conservative entertainers as actress Janine Turner, who kvetched that at one point she thought she would be fired from Friday Night Lights -- that commie TV show about Texas high school football -- because of her politics.

    Michael Sigman: Gratitude In A World Of Sin And Sorrow Michael Sigman 2010

  • Though the New York Post and Daily News once a year routinely call for the abolition of this 179-year-old office (with periodic name changes) - and mayors, too, have predictably kvetched about an office that's mandated to be the watchdog over City Hall-there's no public support for ending something that keeps the bureaucracy on its toes.

    Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again? 2010

  • Though the New York Post and Daily News once a year routinely call for the abolition of this 179-year-old office (with periodic name changes) - and mayors, too, have predictably kvetched about an office that's mandated to be the watchdog over City Hall-there's no public support for ending something that keeps the bureaucracy on its toes.

    Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again? 2010

  • I will say that just about every Australian we met there was polite, friendly, and helpful, and while I may have kvetched a bit about the food prices, I think we got great value for our money and time.

    2008 October « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2008

  • He kvetched and annoyed his way out of the game, voted out because no one could stand to be around him a moment longer.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild! Tallulah Morehead 2010

  • He kvetched and annoyed his way out of the game, voted out because no one could stand to be around him a moment longer.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild! Tallulah Morehead 2010

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