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- verb Present participle of
whinge .
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Examples
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NZ and Aus are playing really well and deserved to win against us, but highlighting shorcomings of the refs cannot be called whingeing just because we lost.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Kindly tell me how being terrified of being starving and homeless, due to the essential income disabled people receive from the government being slashed to ribbons, can be classed as "whingeing" I'm quoting you for your spelling error, also.
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You, in your orignal post, have assumed that the people writing this blog and those commenting on it are 'whingeing' about discrimination when you have no idea what the comments made to those bloggers were, however, the ones that have been quoted above are written in a particular way clearly because it is a women blogger, I don't need to see into anyone's soul to come to that conclusion.
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Contrary to press reports that he has been "whingeing" about his school or his parents, the prince is convinced that Gordonstoun was good for him -- and that his father, who made the decision, acted from the best motives.
The Private Prince 2008
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Nqakula's call for a unified response by all South Africans to crime marks a more conciliatory approach by the government to crime victims, who were outraged when he told them last year to quit "whingeing" about crime or leave the country.
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Uh, ok -- so either FSJ was being whimsical by using the British term "whingeing" or he's actually from the UK and just plain slipped.
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During last week's Safety and Security budget vote, Groenewald accused Nqakula of undermining the country's democracy for allegedly having advised people "whingeing" about crime to leave the country.
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It’s not his fault he has had to substitute a professional life with being a professional student, with his doctorate in whingeing.
Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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David Dimbleby and, dear God, Adrian Chiles, seem wise and serious and women like O'Reilly tired and "whingeing".
The Guardian World News Jane Martinson 2011
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Perth Test in past, but Gayle still swinging hard at 'whingeing' Australians
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