whiny
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This is, in part, why I’m surprised at Gen Z’s dismissal of Holden Caulfield as a whiny white rich-kid hypocrite.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
I don’t say this because it will seem whiny, although it probably will.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
And Ms. Millonzi wisely avoids turning Roderigo into an overly whiny and dim dupe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Yes, Dawson was whiny and moody and extremely self-centered, but so are a lot of teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
“Quiet, now,” I tell her like she’s some whiny kindergartner.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
He's even whinier than Trump and has a tendency to react to human contact like most people do to dog poop.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
Roman compares their whole argument to when they were kids, when Kendall would play the sober-minded big brother in order to get chicken for dinner, while the whinier Roman wanted steak.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
The teacher said some of her own students misbehave whether parents are present or not and sometimes act whinier when parents are present during a virtual lesson.
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2020
Does there exist anywhere a whinier, more petulant, more entitled gang of businesses than California's big utility companies?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2018
Her voice was getting whinier by the second, the pitch rising higher and higher like a teakettle on the cusp of whistling.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Randall Eliason, a law professor at George Washington University and former federal prosecutor, suggested the defense arguments were without merit, posting on X: “I think this is the whiniest pleading I've ever read.”
From Salon ● May 28, 2024
Also, even at 14 years old, K is one of the whiniest children I know when he doesn’t get what he wants.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2021
Most over-optimistic newspaper Over at Super Deporte, the shoutiest, whiniest and silliest of all the sports dailies, they never let you down.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2016
