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whimpering
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
- whining
- whiny
adjective as in tearful
adjective as in teary
noun as in cry
noun as in sobbing
noun as in tear/tears
Example Sentences
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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