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• n  a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
• v  move with a whining sound
• v  talk in a tearful manner
• v  make a high-pitched, screeching noise
• v  complain whiningly

• If you're wondering why kids still use "faggot" as a slur to mean weak and simpering, it's because gays too often whine about silly things like not being able to use a dating .
• As engineers watched, the 707 's four jets started up with a low whine that rose to a scream, then a roar.
• The fedora, acquired long before the profiles started and yet, one suspects, in anticipation of them, his whine, his obsession with injured petsDrudge may have seen journalism's .

• whimper
• snivel
• squeak
• screech
• creak
• screak
• skreak
• grizzle
• yammer
• yawp

News & Articles

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• Andrew Zimmern Hates on a Restaurant That’s Most Likely Sushi Yasuda
  Not a happy customer. Zimmern finds it "douche-y" to whine about bad meals but has written a rant about "one of the best sushi bars in America" in the East 40s that has a no-tip policy . It seems obvious that he's referring to Sushi Yasuda — although Zimmern never calls out the restaurant by name. Upon arriving, the host had no account of Zimmern's reservation, and the staff "couldn't have cared ...
  June 13, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Regents, Legislature going in opposite directions on higher education funding
  Robba Moran — a member of the Kansas Board of Regents and wife of U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. — says that when her husband comes home to Hays on the weekend, the two of them have a whinefest. He whines about federal agencies. Her whine? "I have a Legislature that doesn't seem to value education," she says. Robba Moran, a Republican, and other Republicans and Democrats on the regents last week ...
  June 9, 2013 - Lawrence Journal-World
• Letter: Evil ways, etc.
  Robert F. Tate, Naples: The overwhelming sound you hear is an unrelenting whine. Get used to it. It's going to get louder until Hillary Clinton leaves office in 2024.
  June 7, 2013 - Naples Daily News

Quotes

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• Tom Brokaw in 570 News
  Brokaw noted that Russert had a large wooden sign in his office that read: "Thou Shalt Not Whine," which Brokaw then supplemented with "Thou shalt not weep or cry this morning. This is a celebration."
• Denny Hamlin in SI.com
  You can't whine about it. It just wasn't meant to be,Hamlin said. "God didn't want me to win today."
• Mel Gibson in Kansas City Star
  Nobody is without sin,says Gibson (who should know). "You have to try to make amends if you can. You have to shut up and move on and not whine about it. And you have to deal with it like a man. : You've just got to accept your own...