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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
He is, however, at least slightly better dressed than a peasant screaming invectives in a whiny British accent.
Now Trump's Cabinet members are picking up the claim that the problem isn't rising prices, but parents who need to be sterner with whiny little girls.
And we are asked to see the "vulnerable" as a small number of whiny people on death’s door anyway.
We can already see the first inklings of how the liberal refusal to submit is frustrating the right and making them even more whiny than usual.
The main tone of the videos is whiny, as the hosts complain endlessly that career federal employees look down on them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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