Etymologies
- mewl + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The best part of Benedict’s pathetic mewling is his claim that it was his bold artistic insight — which he had to fight those Hollywood suits to keep intact! — to make Starbuck a womanizing rogue (but not really that much of one, as I remember it).”
“Then a row of about twenty-five as hangdog-looking Bedouins as were ever strung up in the Valley of Jehoshaphat began a kind of mewling cry, such as a rat would make in a trap.”
“Maybe Petey when I found him all hurt and mewling, before I turned him.”
“I thought not, you're just another mewling whinger.”
“It wasn't the shade of a hero from Ireland's long history of failed rebellions, or the mewling of a banker looking for another handout.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ireland Needs Merkel to Get Its Message
“Meanwhile, we just ended a hurricane season with zero hurricanes and only maybe a few mewling tropical storms.”
“Its only when the banks have to honor the out clause in their contract that we now hear the mewling.”
“A mewling noise escapes her as, blinking and sniffling, she bites down on her lip.”
“It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat.”
“But the Federal Communications Commission's modest attempts to hold broadcasters to their end of the bargain are being met by a teeth-gnashing, fire-breathing rhetoric... and pitiful mewling about how hard it is to use a computer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mewling’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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lavender ribbons of rain sang
thistledown, tendril, unborn baubles, coronule, perianth, virago, wisteria, nepenthe, nymph, freshwater, lucid, flame and 14 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Mélange
doggerel, odsbodkins, platitudinous, ennui, strappleberry, stygian, inchoate, incipient, deleterious, gnarled, troglodyte, interlocutor and 96 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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uncleosbert's Words
omphalaskepsis, gravid, steatopygian, marmalade, triffid, scurrilous, kith, lilliputian, slunk, snailular, milquetoast, elephantine and 191 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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Words Describing My Cat
fat, fuzzy, gluttonous, affectionate, stinky, mewling, orally fetishistic, warm, purring, sneaky, shedding, enormous and 3 more...
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The Kite Runner
laaf, naan, zakat, hadj, namaz, mewling, kaka, agha, trepidation, watan, kasseef, chapan and 3 more...
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my words.
ephemeral, ambivalence, symbiosis, ineffable, transcendental, momentous, zeppelin, agoraphobia, planetarium, cleverness, ambilevous, lambent and 67 more...
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