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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a whimpering or whining manner.

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  • adverb In a whimpering way.

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Examples

  • The rhetoric about capitalism is almost whimperingly defeatist, especially for an economic system which is so very new to the world scene.

    Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change 2009

  • As the machine drew up at the house and Kennan first stepped out, a dog's whimperingly joyous bark of welcome struck Michael as not altogether unfamiliar.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • Quoting remarks from a hog-whimperingly neoconservative speech about jihadism made at the Foreign Policy Centre in London nine months ago — a speech that compared doubters over the Iraq war with the appeasers of Nazism — I speculated that, though David Cameron himself had said little on this, he too was probably a hawk on Iraq.

    David Cameron the NeoCon 2006

  • If you inquire whimperingly how they can do it, how the ‘department for education and science’ could have allowed this mutilation even to be proposed, the answer is not just that they are barbarians, though that is certainly part of the problem.

    Boris socks it to the Puritans 2008

  • I was violently and whimperingly sick all the next day.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Flavia 2007

  • I was violently and whimperingly sick all the next day.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • The girl said, rather whimperingly, that she did; and with a last glance at Cheniston, who still lay sunk in a dreary stupor, Anstice went quietly from the room in search of his comrades in misfortune.

    Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes

  • The first thing the youth in the leggings did was to stare helplessly about him, murmuring something whimperingly in Polish.

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • And then she repeated whimperingly, like a child over a broken toy, "I want you to get my promise back."

    The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • "Oh, just for a minute?" her body whimperingly entreated; she would not listen to it!

    The Voice 1912

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