Advertisement
Advertisement
whiner
[ hwahy-ner, ɲ‐ ]
noun
- someone who complains a lot, especially in a peevish, self-pitying manner or tone:
Being a whiner at work just makes you look petty, childish, and untrustworthy.
Word History and Origins
Origin of whiner1
Example Sentences
It's a familiar rhetorical move of his to paint his victims as whiners.
Tom Brady sure seemed “protected” by the refs, but he was also a world-class whiner.
Some 20 years later, another Times writer, sounding like an anti-DEI whiner, wrote approvingly about diligent Indians grateful for free schooling and medical services, and disapprovingly about the Indians who weren’t.
Cut all those men right out of your life who have made being a whiner their "manly" identity.
Trump, McGuire continued, is evil, corrupt, a liar, a whiner and a convicted felon who may eventually go to prison.
Advertisement
Related Words
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse