(1) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
(2) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(3) But there are acts that are doing very well, because they are paying attention to where the money goes, and not bellyaching, sans facts, about the music business.
(4) We will hear much bellyaching about a situation in which the government, rather than risking sensitive evidence in open court, is forced to pay out vast compensation to people who have had the temerity to allege the UK's compliance in their torture.
(5) The patient consulted a physician in our Hospital for bellyache on the left abdomen.
(6) "That's why we moan and bitch and bellyache," Suraiya explained in The Times of India newspaper.
(7) I’ve heard a number of people bellyache in Hollywood about it.” Whether there is resentment (only 15% of Republican voters thought 12 Years A Slave should have won last year) or the academy is swayed by fads (arguably this year, experimental film-making is the common thread), there is no doubt trends can be found when it comes to diversity and awards season.
Crybaby
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Example Sentences:
(1) Controversies such as #Gamergate showed these crybabies that not only were people willing to listen to their performative whingeing, but positively indulge it.
(2) With the crybaby aristo, all that effort was spent on his career in politics ; Ms Yellen, on the other hand, is doing something far more important.
(3) The president-elect, who offered no evidence for his claims, earlier called the recount effort a “scam”, while senior adviser Kellyanne Conway called Green party candidate Jill Stein and Clinton “a bunch of crybabies and sore losers”.
(4) We had former pharmaceuticals boss and crybaby Martin Shkreli leaking a Wu-Tang Clan album out of petulance – such a naughty boy!
(5) In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
(6) When he told another interviewer that music can move him to tears , that was twisted to lampoon him as "Crybaby Clegg".
(7) Under fire from investors spooked by Sports Direct’s plummeting share price he called “these City people” a “bunch of crybabies” and warned them he had “balls of steel”.
(8) Earlier this year, he accused it of being "entirely devoted to attacking my administration", prompting one Fox host to describe the Obama White House as "a bunch of crybabies".