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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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.
AT THE END OF AN ISOLATING YEAR, EVEN THE EMBARRASSING, FRUSTRATING, WEIRD PARTS OF FAMILY GATHERINGS FEEL MISSEDTHERESA VARGASDECEMBER 26, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWhen I hear (as I often do) some flabby boozer whining and ascribing his trouble to the drinkshop, I despise him.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANHowsomever, 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.
THE WHALE AND THE GRASSHOPPERSEUMAS O'BRIENIt is the apt accompaniment of a whining tongue, the fit complement of a verjuice countenance.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANSoon a whining commences, which grows louder and louder, and becomes disagreeable to every person present.
CHARLES DURANTHE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOSEven on the outside, however, they could hear her shrill, whining protest against any mention of Morley.
THE WINNING CLUEJAMES HAY, JR.Before that time the word cant had meant a certain kind of singing, and also the whining sound beggars sometimes made.
STORIES THAT WORDS TELL USELIZABETH O'NEILLA whining sound dwindled and disappeared; some flickering lights went out.
A FEAST OF DEMONSWILLIAM MORRISONI sat down beside her; she ceased whining, and again held out her hand to me.
DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMSIVAN TURGENEVShe was an angel, Sanders went about whining when he had no longer a woman to ill-treat.
A WINDOW IN THRUMSJ. M. BARRIESYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 21, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO WHINING
- 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
- 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
- whining
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy irascible
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.