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adjective

variants or yauping
Definition of yawpingnext
as in vocal
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest the ticket agent spent hours dealing with yawping customers, furious that their flights had been canceled

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yawping

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verb

variants or yauping
present participle of yawp
as in complaining
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely stop yawping about your problems and try doing something to fix them

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yawping
  1. vocal
  2. complaining
  3. vociferous
  4. noisy
  5. shrill
  6. whining
  7. blatant
  8. obstreperous
Adjective
  • The film will star vocal talent from the series including Melanie Zanetti and David McCormack as Bluey’s mum and dad, Chilli and Bandit Heeler, and music created by Bluey composer Joff Bush.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In recent weeks, Meta has been very vocal about Threads’ growth after a lot of people flocked to Bluesky.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of vocal
Verb
  • Alabama complaining about having to schedule easier nonconference opponents in the future for a better shot at making the College Football Playoff is quite amusing.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Jones himself did not attend court this week but used his show to continue complaining about the prospect of The Onion wresting control of his once lucrative conspiracy theory factory.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • In 1972, Muhammad Ali was scheduled to compete in South Africa, but a vociferous campaign dissuaded him from doing so.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But in 2014, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in Ramallah and a vociferous critic of the Israeli occupation, was kicked out of an event at Bir Zeit University by two professors.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of vociferous
Adjective
  • In today’s noisy landscape, initial efforts to get a fledgling client noticed may fall short.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Positive energy Bears wide receiver DJ Moore looked around a noisy Friday afternoon locker room when asked how the team has handled the recent coaching changes.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of noisy
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of shrill
Verb
  • As the Dodgers officially welcomed their latest gazillionaire pitcher to a remodeling Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, the churning of the bulldozers in the infield was momentarily drowned out by the whining around the baseball world.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Han then used a tuning fork that was set to the tone that is produced by a flies’ whining wings.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of whining
Adjective
  • Editor’s picks On its own, its is a pretty blatant example of how TikTok’s popular meme formats allow creators to connect over moments that only become funny with time.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Many with a blatant lack of sympathy towards the murder victim.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of blatant
Adjective
  • Making clear that any future conflict would end with the reunification of the entire peninsula under the South’s authority should increase the North’s restraint, as well as reinforce China’s efforts to rein in its obstreperous ally.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
  • Featuring bodies stacked like cords of wood and a bloated S.S. guard dangling from an iron hook, the spread was an obstreperous incursion among the kind of fashion and perfume ads that Miller had once shot or appeared in.
    Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
Definition of obstreperous
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