whiny
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edit- enPR: wīnʹi, IPA(key): /ˈwaɪni/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪni
- Homophone: winy (wine–whine merger)
Adjective
editwhiny (comparative whinier, superlative whiniest)
- Whining; tending to whine or complain.
- Emily is very whiny; she keeps complaining about trivial things.
- 1981 May 10, Haskel Frankel, “ROSALIND HARRIS IN 'FUNNY GIRL'”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Mrs. Strakosh is played with a whinier accent than Mrs. Brice.
- 1990 August 17, Caryn James, “Review/Film; An Adman, His Filofax And a Thief”, in The New York Times[2]:
- But everyone else seems to have phoned in the film, including Mr. Grodin at his whiniest and Arthur Hiller, the veteran director of films as funny as The In-Laws and as unspeakable as Love Story.
- 2000 January 24, Stephen Holden, “MUSIC IN REVIEW: CABARET; Turning 1960's Innocence Into 90's Toughness”, in The New York Times[3]:
- It takes nerve for a singer to dig out a whiny teenage lament from the early days of rock 'n' roll and transform it into a sexy, slow-burning torch song for adults.
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