What's the difference between crybaby and whiner?

Crybaby


Definition:

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".

Whiner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, whines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This prompted a number of articles with headlines such as “Science proves gluten sensitivity isn’t real, people are just whiners” .
  • (2) Maybe a peacock or a whiner could have muscled the banks into taking haircuts on AIG contracts.
  • (3) Similarly, here's his hiring policy: “no jerks, no peacocks, no whiners".
  • (4) A substance that could “integrate shirkers, malingerers, defeatists and whiners” into the labour market might even be sanctioned.

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