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whiner
[ hwahy-ner, wahy‐ ]
noun
- someone who complains a lot, especially in a peevish, self-pitying manner or tone:
Being a whiner at work just makes you look petty, childish, and untrustworthy.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whiner1
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Example Sentences
Overnight, she was transformed from a Republican with a solid professional reputation into another flaky PC whiner.
He is a bullying whiner and a middle-aged man with a lot of cash and no sense of proportion.
No doubt I might have gone whining to Andy and made him take back all the things he said, but I am no whiner.
I have just carried unpoliteness far enough to make her afraid of me; and to shew her, that I am no whiner.
For the whiner got even less mercy from these men, than he that defied and outfaced them.
And all because I've spoiled them, because I'm an old whiner, dish-rag!
And all because I've spoiled them all, because I'm an old whiner, an old dish rag!
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