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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. blatant
  7. obstreperous
  8. clamorous
Adjective
  • Starlink beaming communications to spacecraft, and he's been vocal about humanity one day colonizing Mars.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The two stepped out at multiple events, and have since been very vocal about their feelings for one another.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of vocal
Verb
  • Leave none standing, none breathing, none whining and complaining and being useless and miserable all the time.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement In Pennsylvania, for example, Republicans filed a lawsuit complaining the state’s rules for accepting absentee ballots that arrive with small errors, like a missing date on the envelope, are too lenient.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • Zoom out: While these protests may be vociferous, there's an equally deafening volume of grievances the SEC sees.
    Hope King, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
  • When the film premiered at TIFF, critics were divided; Roger Ebert was (and remained) a strong defender, but there were vociferous pans, too.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of vociferous
Adjective
  • Instead of visiting the range on a noisy, busy Saturday, go after work or to a private range.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2024
  • All started with the noisy image on the left above, so all are improvements on the original.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of noisy
Adjective
  • The frequency range of the FT1 is wide, but the treble never sounds shrill and the bass never booms or imposes on the mids.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The shrill blast of the whistle signaled their departure, and the locomotive strained to pull away from the station, making the carriage jolt.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of shrill
Adjective
  • As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.
    Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This is the continuation of the latest fake media outrage days before the election in a blatant attempt to interfere on behalf of Kamala Harris.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of blatant
Adjective
  • 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
  • Rachelle and Matthew had told me that Zac had become obstreperous and even menacing toward them, but Howells mentioned several incidents of physical aggression.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Definition of obstreperous
Adjective
  • The clamorous close of the 2021 legislative session, and Walz’s role in trying to enact police reform in response to the police killings of Floyd and Wright, plays out in a cache of thousands of internal emails from the Walz administration obtained by ProPublica and the Minnesota Reformer.
    Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • After several clamorous years of electric blues power, Mayall abruptly ratcheted down the volume for two albums with Mark and Almond.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 23 July 2024
Definition of clamorous
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