gruntling造句

• I don't know what a gruntled worker might be, but I've known plenty who were disgruntled and have learned to keep my distance.
• Caravan guard Gruntle becomes the Mortal Sword of Treach when his friend Stonny is raped and beaten at Capustan, and he joins the campaign against the Pannion.
• The growth of talk radio and the invention of something called e-mail offer global platforms for the disgruntled, who are always more vocal than the merely gruntled.
• The word to be examined today is treated in a similarly thought-provoking phrase : " How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees ?"
• You might think that if the old gruntle meant " complain, " then disgruntle would mean " to stop from complaining, " but language is not always logical.
• I don't know what a gruntled worker might be, but I've known plenty who were disgruntled and have learned to keep my distance . ( Skube, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) MOVED.
• The OED and Merriam-Webster list that play on a word as a back-formation from disgruntle, and the word gruntle is born again _ meaning " to put in a good humor ."
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• It's quite the opposite  I dain you . " As it happens, " gruntle " and " dain " are both attested much earlier, but not as antonyms of the longer forms.
• He hires the Trygalle Trade Guild to take him to that distant continent and is accompanied by Gruntle, who does this because he is irritated by all the attention from the acolytes and priestess of Trake, the new God of War.
• The Oxford English Dictionary defines gruntle as " to grumble, murmur, complain, " and cites a 1589 sermon by Robert Bruce : " It becomes us not to have our hearts here gruntling upon this earth ."
• The Oxford English Dictionary defines gruntle as " to grumble, murmur, complain, " and cites a 1589 sermon by Robert Bruce : " It becomes us not to have our hearts here gruntling upon this earth ."
• Though studies suggest consumers are gloomy about their finances and job prospects, " When it comes to buying, consumers are ` gruntled,'more than disgruntled, " said Gary Ciminero, an economist based in Providence, Rhode Island.
• Gruntle is what lexicographers call a frequentive, a verb that describes repeated or recurrent action . ( Some call it " frequentative, " but they need preventive, not preventative, medicine . ) The frequentive of wrest is wrestle; of prate, prattle; of spark, sparkle; and the frequentive of grunt is gruntle.
• Gruntle is what lexicographers call a frequentive, a verb that describes repeated or recurrent action . ( Some call it " frequentative, " but they need preventive, not preventative, medicine . ) The frequentive of wrest is wrestle; of prate, prattle; of spark, sparkle; and the frequentive of grunt is gruntle.
• For example, " gruntled " ( from " disgruntled " ) is used only in humorous contexts, as when P . G . Wodehouse wrote, " I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled ", or the character Turk in the American sitcom " Scrubs " told another character, " I don't disdain you!
• For example, " gruntled " ( from " disgruntled " ) is used only in humorous contexts, as when P . G . Wodehouse wrote, " I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled ", or the character Turk in the American sitcom " Scrubs " told another character, " I don't disdain you!
• Imagine that a disgruntled former employee is looking for revenge, except that instead of pumping 9mm slugs into the gruntled workers, he decides to break into the computer system with your password, wipe out your financial records, erase years of your work and send E-mail to the entire Internet _ with your return address _ about what the boss's wife was really doing for the two hours she disappeared from last year's Christmas party.