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The whiningly nasal caricature makes it harder to credit Atticus’s plea that his kids find it in their hearts to understand downtrodden Bob.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

He instructs Banquo's murderers with a flat naturalism that echoes the White House tapes, then whiningly rationalizes his supposed invincibility while twiddling a now useless dagger.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m getting to that,” she says, almost whiningly.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

"Maybe Clancy won't let me pitch," objected the star whiningly.

From Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Fullerton, Hugh S.

About a year after, as I was returning to my house, after nightfall, I was solicited by a beggar, who whiningly asked me for charity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various