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as in whining
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Recent Examples of whiny
In defense of whiny Joey King, that does seem like a lot.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Of course, the girls are extra whiny and L. ends up needing her diaper changed at 12:58 p.m.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024
In the television show, Gyllenhaal’s Sabich is whiny, impulsive, and insistent on his own righteousness.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
In earlier show appearances, Aegon comes off like a typical whiny teen, entitled, oblivious to the political intrigues around him, masturbating out a window of the Red Keep.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 17 June 2024
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Of course, the girls are extra whiny and L. ends up needing her diaper changed at 12:58 p.m.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024
In the television show, Gyllenhaal’s Sabich is whiny, impulsive, and insistent on his own righteousness.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
In earlier show appearances, Aegon comes off like a typical whiny teen, entitled, oblivious to the political intrigues around him, masturbating out a window of the Red Keep.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 17 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for whiny
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiny
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Miranda, however, wears a sheath of strident red skin-tight sequins, with a crimson damask coat arranged just so over her shoulders.Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
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What attracted people in from the mid-nineties through 2011, when Giant Robot published its final issue, was its mixture of arrogance—the sense that it was made by people with a strident sense of taste—but also curiosity.Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
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His voice — raw, nasal, scratchy but full of passion, anger and wry wisdom — is near enough to the original to be unmistakable and yet colored by the actor’s persona to a degree that suggests something closer to symbiosis than impersonation.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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The evolutionary immunologist, who works at the University of New Mexico, studies mucosal immune systems in fish to better understand how human versions of these systems, such as our intestinal lining and nasal cavity, work.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.Bryce MillerColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
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In Soledar, an old salt mining town, earsplitting explosions crack in every direction.Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2022
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Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
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“Whiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiny. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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