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In his typically whiny book "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free," Hegseth writes, "Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’" adding, "But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane."

From Salon

“Guys don’t make passes at whiny women who think Jeopardy! clues are ‘problematic,’ ” yet another wrote.

“It was gross. But I didn’t feel like I was allowed to say those things — as a public person, as a woman, as a queer person — without seeming like a whiny little brat. The whole world was telling me not to complain about what was happening.”

Emmett: “First stop saying you’re entitled to anything, ‘cause it’s a whiny word that makes my butt clench.”

He speaks in a nasally tone that sounds whiny even when he is sincere.

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

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