plaint
- n (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed
- n a cry of sorrow and grief
- The old cowboys' plaint, "Don't fence me in," is fast giving way to the environmentalists' plea, "Please fence them out.
- It's an age-old artist's plaint, but you may wonder how much of a surprise it could have been, given how he came to be here: doing a sound check for a Manhattan party for teen .
- Of New York Mayor John Lindsay's plaint that his is the second toughest job in the world, Reagan said that it probably was"the way he does it.