Accepted
Accepted adjective - Generally approved or compelling recognition.
Complained is an antonym for accepted.
Complained
Both words in one sentence
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She accepted it, but afterwards she complained about how she could feel the pity of everyone watching.
Source: Don't You Dare Pity Me! -
Nintendo Hard: China deliberately receives many crippling penalties to it (such as having 90% of its population be non-accepted, terribly inadequate military, and constant rebellion events) such that players complained China was unplayable/unfair.
- When sent a luxurious personal command vehicle - essentially a motor home - of a sort already accepted by Bernard Law Montgomery, Slim complained about it having taken up shipping space that could have more usefully been filled by another tank, and had it converted into an ambulance.
Source: A Father To His Men / Real Life
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