puling

We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.

Are all her laws suspended, that she might transform, in an instant, a puling trifler into a perfect woman?

We came in puling and naked, and every stitch must come off before we get out again.

The puling voice is crushed by the chorus, which protests that the heavens are above Count Orso.