kvetchy

/ ˈkvɛtʃɪ /

adjective

1. slang,  tending to grumble or complain; complaining

Other Word Forms

• kvetchiness noun
• kvetchily adverb

Example Sentences

In “The Life,” his 2016 play starring David Hyde Pierce at New York’s Playwrights Horizons, the protagonist drops dead unexpectedly, transforming kvetchy comedy into clinical postmortem.

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He described a partly gentrified tableau, “like a Woody Allen movie” with “kvetchy” sellers and buyers.

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She describes herself as “kvetchy and blue,” but she owns it, one day, one sniffle at a time.

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The latter are for dabblers, like me, who get kvetchy when an outdoor activity starts to eat into the dinner hour.

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The lunacy of their complaint – “This program is a nightmare – but not enough people are being helped by it!” – is like the old joke about the kvetchy restaurant patron who complains the food is terrible, and the portions are too small.

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