Complaint
Com`plaint´ Pronunciation: kǒm`plānt´
COMPLAINT, crim. law. The allegation made to a proper officer, that some
person, whether known or unknown, has been guilty of a designated offence,
with an offer to prove the fact, and a request that the offender may be
punished.
2. To have a legal effect, the complaint must be supported by such
evidence as shows that an offence has been committed, and renders it certain
or probable that it was committed by the person named or described in the
complaint.
abnormality,
accusal,
accusation,
accusing,
acute disease,
affection,
affidavit,
affliction,
ailment,
allegation,
allegement,
allergic disease,
allergy,
arraignment,
atrophy,
bacterial disease,
ban,
beef,
beefing,
bellyache,
bellyaching,
bill,
bill of complaint,
bill of particulars,
birth defect,
bitch,
bitching,
blackball,
blackballing,
blame,
blight,
boycott,
bringing of charges,
bringing to book,
cardiovascular disease,
challenge,
charge,
chronic disease,
circulatory disease,
claim,
combative reaction,
complaining,
complication,
compunction,
condition,
congenital defect,
count,
counteraction,
declaration,
defect,
defiance,
deficiency disease,
deformity,
degenerative disease,
delation,
demonstration,
demur,
demurrer,
denouncement,
denunciation,
deposition,
destructive criticism,
dim view,
disability,
disagreement,
disappointment,
disapprobation,
disapproval,
discontent,
discontentedness,
discontentment,
disease,
disenchantment,
disesteem,
disfavor,
disgruntlement,
disillusion,
disillusionment,
disorder,
displeasure,
dispute,
disrespect,
dissatisfaction,
dissent,
dissentience,
distaste,
distemper,
endemic,
endemic disease,
endocrine disease,
epidemic disease,
exception,
exclusion,
expostulation,
faultfinding,
fractiousness,
functional disease,
fungus disease,
gastrointestinal disease,
genetic disease,
grievance,
grievance committee,
gripe,
griping,
groan,
groaning,
grouse,
grousing,
grumble,
grumbling,
handicap,
hereditary disease,
holler,
howl,
iatrogenic disease,
ill,
illness,
impeachment,
implication,
imputation,
indictment,
indignation,
indignation meeting,
indisposition,
infectious disease,
infirmity,
information,
innuendo,
insinuation,
kick,
kicking,
lawsuit,
laying of charges,
libel,
low estimation,
low opinion,
malady,
malaise,
march,
morbidity,
morbus,
murmuring,
muscular disease,
narratio,
negativism,
neurological disease,
nolle prosequi,
noncooperation,
nonsuit,
nonviolent protest,
nutritional disease,
obstinacy,
occupational disease,
opposition,
opposure,
organic disease,
ostracism,
pandemic disease,
passive resistance,
pathological condition,
pathology,
peeve,
peevishness,
pet peeve,
petulance,
picketing,
plaint,
plant disease,
prosecution,
protest demonstration,
protestation,
protozoan disease,
psychosomatic disease,
qualm,
querulousness,
rally,
reaction,
rebuff,
recalcitrance,
recalcitrancy,
recalcitration,
refractoriness,
rejection,
reluctance,
remonstrance,
remonstration,
renitence,
renitency,
repellence,
repellency,
reproach,
repulse,
repulsion,
resistance,
respiratory disease,
revolt,
rockiness,
scolding,
scruple,
secondary disease,
seediness,
sickishness,
sickness,
signs,
sit-in,
sniping,
squawk,
squawking,
stand,
statement,
statement of facts,
strike,
suit,
symptomatology,
symptomology,
symptoms,
syndrome,
taxing,
teach-in,
the pip,
thumbs-down,
true bill,
uncooperativeness,
unhappiness,
unspoken accusation,
urogenital disease,
veiled accusation,
virus disease,
wasting disease,
whining,
withstanding,
worm disease,
yapping