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A whimpering, half-growl and curdled scream, a cornered-animal cry of a sound.

Somewhere in the theater, you also hear a soft, whimpering, “Help”—a woman is about to suffocate on her own tears.

Luckily, Carrie was there to arrange everything and sent him off with soft eyes and a whimpering goodbye.

He was an Airedale and was pulling himself along on three legs, whimpering softly.

Even the children were not whimpering, the tawdry women were not hysterical, not a parrot raised his voice nor a dog whined.

Crawley remained on his knees, howling and whimpering so piteously that the man took pity on this abject personage.

We were whimpering and peevish; we were wracked with pain and weary of mind, but that nurse never failed to smile.

She was just in time to pick up the blind, whimpering thing.

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On this page you'll find 197 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whimpering, such as: bearish, bemoaning, cantankerous, captious, carping, and censorious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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