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whining
adjective as in carping
adjective as in complaining
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
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
- whiny
Example Sentences
It was her standard response to our questions, which in retrospect probably came out more like whines, about what was about to land on our plates.
They usually find whining to be an unattractive quality best left to toddlers and MSNBC hosts.
Detractors might say this is a whole lot of feminist whining, of finding problems where there are none.
Or refusing to take on menial work, such as working in a café for example, and instead whining at your parents to pay your rent?
We are constantly bombarded by whining from the right over its contrived war on Christmas.
Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan are quite unlikable people, stuck with one another, whining to their friends and family.
When I hear (as I often do) some flabby boozer whining and ascribing his trouble to the drinkshop, I despise him.
Howsomever, I am not dead broke yet, and even if a man is dead broke inself, there is no reason why he should go whining about it.
It is the apt accompaniment of a whining tongue, the fit complement of a verjuice countenance.
Soon a whining commences, which grows louder and louder, and becomes disagreeable to every person present.
Even on the outside, however, they could hear her shrill, whining protest against any mention of Morley.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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