whiny
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈwaɪni/
- Informal
:
quejoso
- Her laugh was high and whiny, but full of a strange, giddy joy.
- a whiny voice
- a whiny kid
- a whiny baby
But he is such a crying whiny baby.
- But he is such a crying whiny baby.
- Trump, it's time to get off Twitter and stop being such a whiny mother.
- That is what he needed, not a whiny woke annoying wife.
- And just like that, they become whiny and victimized and sullen and resentful.
- They may get petulant and whiny and just sort of sullen.
- Now after going full frontal fascist, Trump went full whiny baby.
- If you're lost and faithless and then you get whiny and resentful, it's just going to make it worse.
- But, you know, like all great superstars, you know, even Jordan was a whiny little baby, but he he hit it very well.
- But to practise bringing this joy and this presence and this excellent that helped me break that pattern of being almost like a whiny little brat.
- Maybe I'm just a grouchy, whiny old guy that's a hypocrite who sells his own merch too.
- That's how weak and whiny and spineless the Republican Party, as they put it on everybody else to stand up for what deep down they know is right.
- And I'm so grateful that I listen to that rather than the whiny, egoic voice that was just, you know, hurt and felt rejected.
- They get really irritable, abrupt pacing, almost whiny, maybe even rageful.
- And I was so whiny and that I just walked off the field.
Examples
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I don't understand how you can listen to my whiny voice all day.
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If you like to read about whiny kids during the apocalypse, this may be for you.
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And there was Christmas too," she added in a voice she was aware was whiny.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sometimes Duck thought they all sounded like a bunch of whiny kids a couple of days after Christmas.
Fiction book (1998) -
I don't understand how you can listen to my whiny voice all day.
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Her knees buckled as she tried to speak, and her voice came in a whiny squeal.
Fiction book (1995) -
I hear Junie's whiny reply: "But you put too much mayonnaise on my sandwich!"
Fiction book (1997) -
If you're lost and faithless and then you get whiny and resentful, it's just going to make it worse.
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Backed up in traffic, with a couple of whiny children, a late appointment, and a downpour?
Synonyms
117
4.2
Easily annoyed and upset when tired or hungry
3
4.8
Acting childish and complaining a lot in an annoying way
2
9.4
Often complaining in a whiny, unhappy way
1
4.4
Feeling annoyed and often complaining about things
A person who often says they are not happy about things
Showing that you are unhappy about something
Often complaining in a way that annoys others
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
An insulting word for a person who complains a lot and acts like a child
How Complaining
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whiny comes from the verb whine and the ending -y. Whine originally copied a long, high sound people make when they complain, a 'high, long cry' or 'to complain'. So a whiny person speaks in that high, complaining way and seems childish or hard to please.