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

Now he just seems like another Republican whiner lamenting that nobody understands him anymore.

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It's a familiar rhetorical move of his to paint his victims as whiners.

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Tom Brady sure seemed “protected” by the refs, but he was also a world-class whiner.

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Some 20 years later, another Times writer, sounding like an anti-DEI whiner, wrote approvingly about diligent Indians grateful for free schooling and medical services, and disapprovingly about the Indians who weren’t.

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Cut all those men right out of your life who have made being a whiner their "manly" identity.

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Related Words

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