crybully

American  

[krahy-bool-ee] / ˈkraɪˌbʊl i /

noun

plural

crybullies

1. a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice.

   It’s just another group of crybullies who can’t cope with anyone’s views but their own.

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Etymology

Origin of crybully

First recorded in 1995–2000; cry ( def. ) + bully ¹ ( def. ), on the model of crybaby ( def. )

Example Sentences

Other terms originating on the internet include "crybully," which the website defines as "a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice."

From Los Angeles Times

In keeping with his crybully cohort, Trump casts himself as a perpetual victim, the uncontested winner of the oppression Olympics.

From Washington Post

My own Twitter feed has been full of triumphant liberals celebrating the theater’s revived ability to effect political change and unmask Trump as a tetchy crybully; and triumphant conservatives celebrating how smug, moralizing and clueless this whole incident revealed liberals to be.

From Washington Post

He may be a crybully, but he’s no loser.

From Washington Post

But when I wrote in 2008, the rhetoric of “safe spaces,” “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings” had not yet colluded to bring forth that new academic phenomenon, at once tender and vicious, the crybully.

From The Wall Street Journal