as in whines
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
a very patient, understanding person who accepts life's inconveniences without a bleat
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as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
as far as the slumlord was concerned, the unhappy tenants were just bleating about nothing
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as in whimpers
to utter feeble plaintive cries
the baby bleated softly as he woke up, then smiled
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Recent Examples of bleats
Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
Busting out a box of instruments that turned the room into a riot of noise, Sheeran then encourage each student to share their unique sound into the mic, from saxophone bleats to fart sounds.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
Late that afternoon, Flint was sitting quietly against his tree and using a Primos can call to make bleats.
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And also on Untucked… • Discord complains about Nini being in the top basically all episode, while other queens like Jane try to kindly not get down in the mud with her.—
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Trump complains often that both rooms are too small.—
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Stein’s bedroom adjoined the room where Dodge would visit her lover at night; kept awake by the murmurings and moans, Stein lit a candle and composed a portrait of her host.—
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Most of these are held in a tent, from which loud, ecstatic moans can be heard for seemingly miles around.—
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George Oliver Floating Fluted Nightstands There’s something about a pair of floating nightstands that just screams luxury, and this set is no exception.—
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The Kings are still in the playoff picture and the Pacific Division race, even with a season that screams mediocrity.—
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Additional crew members then rush in as a baby cries in the background, and alarms on medical equipment begin to sound.—
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Watching, Heining cries every darn time.—
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Parents of students with disabilities have increasingly resorted to filing complaints with the state over their schools’ failure to educate their children, and most of the time, state investigators have agreed.—
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MacLeod said many of the complaints his organization hears are like the Johnsons’ and involve third-party utility billing companies hired by landlords.—
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Continue reading … WAR OF WORDS – AOC weighs in after Republican laments 'humiliation' of Mamdani campaigning in Arabic.—
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The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.—
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“Bleats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleats. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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