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whiny
adjective as in disagreeable
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in querulous
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
Example Sentences
In fact, she seems to think he’s a whiny little worm.
For years, there has been a wave of whiny “manosphere” influencers and right-wing pundits telling men that they are the real victims — that feminism has gone “too far” and masculinity is under attack.
He is, however, at least slightly better dressed than a peasant screaming invectives in a whiny British accent.
Now Trump's Cabinet members are picking up the claim that the problem isn't rising prices, but parents who need to be sterner with whiny little girls.
And we are asked to see the "vulnerable" as a small number of whiny people on death’s door anyway.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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