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• n  a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

• Don't tell me that he is a whiner.
• He is not, of course, a run-of-the-mill whiner.
• Chirac may turn out to be the last bulwark of sanity or a tiresome whiner, but either way he's the indispensable man right now in the opposition to an attack on Iraq.

• complainer
• moaner
• sniveller
• crybaby
• bellyacher
• grumbler
• squawker

News & Articles

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• Mickelson Leads Into Final Round, Johnson Criticizes USGA
  thegazette.com Copyright 2011 SourceMedia Group. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. “Whiner” and “excuse-maker” have never been terms people have attached to the PGA Tour’s Zach Johnson.
  June 16, 2013 - KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids
• Johnson criticizes USGA, criticism bounces back
  “Whiner” and “excuse-maker” have never been terms people have attached to the PGA Tour’s Zach Johnson. Like most of his peers, Johnson has hidden behind no one and pinned the blame on himself in times when he’s struggled on golf courses.
  June 15, 2013 - The Gazette

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Wall Street Journal Blogs (blog)
  At a campaign event today in Fairfax, Va., Obama quoted the "mental recession" and "nation of whiner" lines. "We need somebody to actually solve the economy. It's not just a figment of your imagination. It's not all in your head."
• Sean Avery in Forbes
  Darcy has always been a whiner. You say you don't like his hair and he'll be upset,Avery said.
• Tom Izzo in SI.com
  Nothing good will be said and nothing good will come out of my mouth and so I will look like a whiner and a crier,Izzo said. "But they beat us and they played awfully well."