Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or an animal that whines.
Wiktionary
- n. One who whines about perceived problems; a complainer
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, whines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining
Examples
“One definition of a whiner is a person who calls a conservative when the conservative lies.”
Conservative Group to Air Anti-Obama Ads - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“On the other hand, any right-whiner is ALWAYS innocent of whatever crime they commit.”
“Poor widdle ultimate whiner is now asking questions just like aaronk/dr. runt/sons of liberty, spirit of 76 ….”
“I am content to wait and let your future postings here on Althouse - where I have posted for 7 years, and have met Ann in the flesh by the way, prove whether or not you are an intelligent commenter - not promising so far, I must say, or just a long term whiner and troll who really adds nothing substantive to the discussion.”
“Gnomedex Podcast Links - Curry, Winer, Microsoft the whiner is barely audible”
“Of course, his letter has not gone over well with some audiences - he has been called a "whiner" and worse.”
“In what some are calling "the whine heard 'round the world," George W-is-not-for - "whiner" - so-stop-saying-that Bush stamped his little feet this weekend and lectured the Iraqi people about the badness of their violence.”
“To steal a quote from advisor and lobbyist -- and "whiner" -- Phil Gramm, McCain's campaign apparently believes it has "the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that's ready money.”
David Donnelly: $400 million for McCain: Who Broke Public Financing?
“To mindless lemmings like Dr. Hunt, anyone who isn’t a right-whiner is guilty before proven innocent.”
“As the risk of being called a whiner by Vice President Biden, it has to be pointed out that these very same governments hand out little in spending to underpin the real economy, even as unemployment remains in double digits around the globe.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Auerback: Main Street Is Dying a Death by a Thousand Spending Cuts
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
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Name calling is never very nice . . .
Sometimes putting two of these together works too!
hipster, whiner, hypocrite, disingenuous, scumbag, repugnant, fugly, dork, retard, jerk, hillbilly, fairy and 41 more...
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