What's the difference between annoy and whinge?

Annoy


Definition:

  • (n.) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
  • (n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.
  • (n.) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
  • (2) He was 'annoyed' after a phone call with Maxine Carr, in which she'd told him she was going out 'again' with her mother that evening in Grimsby ('Do you like to control people?'
  • (3) When my pictures were published, some Star Wars fans were annoyed that the house in this picture had been left in such a state of disrepair.
  • (4) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
  • (5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
  • (6) Although mumbling is frustrating and annoying at times, it may be a helpful clue to some of the client's most anxiety-provoking thoughts or feelings.
  • (7) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
  • (8) It’s annoying that we haven’t stretched our lead but we’ve got to accept that and take it forward.
  • (9) It is difficult to prove that noise is detrimental to our health; many people are annoyed by noise; however, only particular groups (children, the elderly, the handicapped, people who wear a hearing aid, people with heart disease) are affected as far as health is concerned, and it is these people who require special protection.
  • (10) Noise in open-plan computer rooms and annoyance and perceived deterioration in performance associated with it also appears to be a problem that may be similarly categorized.
  • (11) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (12) Our government understands that we have to help but if they send troops officially, that would annoy Europe, and Nato.
  • (13) Rather than getting annoyed, you’re feeling comforted.
  • (14) Amazon and MasterCard don't like it either, and their clients were probably annoyed.
  • (15) His annoyance was memorably captured by a BBC film crew for a documentary.
  • (16) And you can see that some writers' talents are fed by great exposure to society and then there are others – DH Lawrence is a good example – who think they want acceptance but actually they can't stand it and they've got to annoy people by pointing out uncomfortable things, and that's more me.
  • (17) Merkel will be annoyed that a group set up by the Tories has given a platform to her opponents.
  • (18) Information on safety and side effects is also presented, such as a possible increase in serum cholesterol levels and annoying side effects that may severely limit widespread use of this food supplement.
  • (19) After the second such call, my wife became annoyed at the intrusion he was making in our weekend.
  • (20) Irritations are mainly due to the particulate phase of environmental tobacco smoke, whereas the gas phase is to a large extent responsible for annoyance.

Whinge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To whine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • (2) "Don't know what you are whinging about, I live in Reading, which has to be worse than London," writes a not-wrong Anton Lawrence.
  • (3) Controversies such as #Gamergate showed these crybabies that not only were people willing to listen to their performative whingeing, but positively indulge it.
  • (4) The whingeing begins as soon as they are free to speak.
  • (5) In the interests of full disclosure – and exhibitionism – I ruined the first time my boyfriend tried to ask me to marry him by spending a full evening whingeing about someone I was arguing with on Twitter.
  • (6) Business may whinge about legislation, and lobby furiously against it, but in the end - as in the case of Labour's windfall tax - they tend to submit when faced with determined legislators, especially when backed by public opinion.
  • (7) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
  • (8) "Between your moaning about early mornings and Dan Rookwood's RSI whingeing," notes Dave Holme, "anyone would think you had a tough job.
  • (9) Men who might once have faced lions for their faith are whinging about ridicule.
  • (10) It could be about vajazzling or threesomes or blowjobs; it could contain sex and therefore lighten the load of having to read a whinge.
  • (11) 49ers 6-0 Packers, 2:17, 1st quarter GB's D shows life, they bring down Kaepernick, contain Gore and then on third down, the Niners QB can't find Crabtree who is falling back into the endzone and whinging for a hold.
  • (12) Sir John Chilcot and his team should therefore cease whingeing about media attacks, set dates for the publication of their report and a deadline by which final comments should be received, and stick to that timetable irrespective of further complaints about wording from those to be criticised.
  • (13) The foreign secretary's Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, fuelled the row when he accused business of "whingeing".
  • (14) Eamonn Maloney objects: ""The IC" sounds like a province of California full of rich kids who whinge too much.
  • (15) His whinge in the column following the sentencing of the Facebook fools concerned the Notting Hill carnival (he's got a flat there).
  • (16) If you take this tool and embrace it rather than whinge, it’s amazing what you can do.
  • (17) But, as Perth coach Alistair Edwards commented after the match, “both squads have great character, you don’t see us whinging about all the travelling”.
  • (18) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
  • (19) I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it’s time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective whinge-o-rama that seems to be going on in some places,” he said.
  • (20) We know, because Shakespeare wrote it into the scripts, moreover as a whinge, that the however-many-hours-traffic of the original stage ended with a jig .