whiner

[ hwahy-ner, wahy‐ ]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whiner¹

whine + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

Overnight, she was transformed from a Republican with a solid professional reputation into another flaky PC whiner.

From The Daily Beast

He is a bullying whiner and a middle-aged man with a lot of cash and no sense of proportion.

From The Daily Beast

No doubt I might have gone whining to Andy and made him take back all the things he said, but I am no whiner.

From Project Gutenberg

I have just carried unpoliteness far enough to make her afraid of me; and to shew her, that I am no whiner.

From Project Gutenberg

For the whiner got even less mercy from these men, than he that defied and outfaced them.

From Project Gutenberg

And all because I've spoiled them, because I'm an old whiner, dish-rag!

From Project Gutenberg

And all because I've spoiled them all, because I'm an old whiner, an old dish rag!

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• wimp