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crybaby

[krahy-bay-bee] / ˈkraɪˌbeɪ bi /


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If not, don’t be a crybaby if you get fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Here she’s dealing with a smooth talker doling out empty promises, a crybaby who can’t decide what he wants, even a guy so fixated on self-betterment that he’s lost interest in the bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025

Musk himself is the biggest crybaby of all, telling the Washington Post, "People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool."

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

My ad would assert that I’m stupid with money, bad at decision-making and a crybaby to boot — all endorsed by yours truly.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

Hanako asked, “Baachan, was Papa a big crybaby or just a crybaby sometimes? And was he always serious when he was a child?”

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Our parents didn’t come for us to turn into chillones — crybabies — seeking revenge for past sins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

It's also because it's the car of crybabies.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

The time for tolerating the selfish crybabies may be coming to an end.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

And yet it’s hard for me not to anthropomorphize these platforms, looking around at all the crybabies whining that they don’t treat every single user exactly the same in every situation, and collapsing in frustration.

From The Verge ● Jul. 12, 2019

The glory of elfdom shall not be dimmed by the whining of a few crybabies.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

I am not crybabying to the Judge or making any kick about things.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister


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