crybaby
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Here she’s dealing with a smooth talker doling out empty promises, a crybaby who can’t decide what he wants, even a guy so fixated on self-betterment that he’s lost interest in the bedroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
Musk himself is the biggest crybaby of all, telling the Washington Post, "People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool."
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
“This letter is so pathetic in terms of whining: Mr. Free Speech Absolutist, just a crybaby hiding behind his lawyers,” O’Dowd said in an interview.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
“This letter is so pathetic in terms of whining: Mr. Free Speech Absolutist, just a crybaby hiding behind his lawyers,” Mr. O’Dowd told The Washington Post.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Hanako asked, “Baachan, was Papa a big crybaby or just a crybaby sometimes? And was he always serious when he was a child?”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Meanwhile, his cult is such that defenders are dismissing his alleged victims as weak-willed crybabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
It's also because it's the car of crybabies.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
Those are the adult facts, but the crybabies do not comprehend how little power they have.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
And yet it’s hard for me not to anthropomorphize these platforms, looking around at all the crybabies whining that they don’t treat every single user exactly the same in every situation, and collapsing in frustration.
From The Verge ● Jul. 12, 2019
The glory of elfdom shall not be dimmed by the whining of a few crybabies.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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I am not crybabying to the Judge or making any kick about things.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen