Example Sentences

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The willowy Mr. Beard’s Edmund has a Method, 1950s twitchiness and whininess that bring to mind James Dean in “East of Eden.”

From New York Times • May 13, 2018

His origin story — that he was irrevocably damaged in 1949 by learning that his first wife had cheated on him — has a whiff of prototypical Reddit red-pill whininess to it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017

On a revisit nothing stands out quite so painfully as the book’s ambient self-pity and whininess.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

Alphonse combines the whininess of Palance in The Big Knife with the manipulative cruelty of LeGros in Living in Oblivion.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2011

There was a whininess in my voice that I hated.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell