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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 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."
“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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