cry-baby
Example Sentences
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"It was the most important heavyweight fight of the 21st century, which lived up to all expectations and a result which could have gone either way, but Fury isn't a cry-baby," promoter Frank Warren says.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
Klay Thompson is a cry-baby all the time, thats why he thinks others are.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2016
When he told Harry Truman that he felt he had blood on his hands, the president warned his aides to keep this "cry-baby scientist" away from him.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2012
Humanity can now leave the cry-baby phase and finally come of age.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2010
The child had slept standing up, and had evolved from his subconsciousness, as children will, beasts and conditions that had existed when the whole human race was a frightened cry-baby in its cradle.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
