(v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
(v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
(n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(2) You can whine about the politics of this until you are green, white and orange in the face but if you want to learn Irish – and many people do – your best bet is to organise your own classes.
(3) Green Day love it The American rock band Green Day are proud champions of Salinger's antihero; their 1994 song Basket Case is a nasally homage in nasally whines.
(4) I whine that I haven’t been able to successfully place an order, let alone indicate how i’d like my steak done.
(5) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
(6) On 16 November I find another writerly whine: "I feel sucked hollow."
(7) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(8) Whining about cab drivers transcends national boundaries.
(9) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
(10) He would be watching the dogfights, planes diving and looping, their engines whining, each hurling fire at the other.
(11) Effects of diazepam were examined on the whine reaction elicited by LH stimulation and on unit activities in the LH and Abm in cats.
(12) The whole show is really just a riff on that well-meaning girl in 1980s Grange Hill whining, "Why do you eat so many sandwiches, Ro-land?"
(13) We know we'll get into trouble for it and we're certainly not whining about that."
(14) And in the absence of a firm rebuttal, all you can do, as Kerry did and Romney is now doing, is whine.
(15) This Fourth of July weekend, we Americans did what we're known for: we grilled meats, whined about air travel, and looked back in fondness at our Founding Fathers who refused to pay their taxes.
(16) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(17) As for its leadership, the current choice of new brooms includes a prince from a non-democracy, a South Korean billionaire and Fifa insider who nodded Blatterism through for the best part of two decades before deciding opportunely to speak out (and is now whining about being taken out by the “hitman” that is Blatter’s ethics committee), and Michel Platini , whose reputation appears to have a half-life shorter than most highly radioactive isotopes.
(18) As the new Zimbabwe effectively became a one-party state under the gifted but autocratic Mugabe, as terrible droughts undermined the economy and confidence of what was so recently one of the richest and most fertile African countries and as Aids cut a swathe through the population, the old pariah, defiant and bigoted to the last, could not resist saying, with the familiar Smithy whine: "I told you so."
(19) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
(20) Offensive behaviour, i.e., whine response to a rod presented in front of the snout and blowing air on back hair was markedly observed, and whine, attacking and biting responses to tapping with a rod on the back in these cats were marked.
Whiny
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No doubt the Scouser's legendary sense of humour will result in you getting no whiny emails about it whatsoever" - Chris Threlfall.
(2) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
(3) Is it good, emotive fare, or whiny, offensive, Coldplay-lite twaddle sung by the least convincing frontman since Jason Lee starting cultivating a pineapple?
(4) I know that sounds weird and whiny, but it's true."
(5) He adores his job – and can't stand whiny actors If there is one things I object to it’s actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
(6) One commentator has called them “Generation Y-ny [whiny]”, another common epithet is Generation Me, though Time magazine didn’t think this quite captured the self-obsession of the generation and beefed it up to Generation Me, Me, Me as the headline of their feature on them.
(7) At first glance Pigeon is selfish and whiny, manipulative ... but if you read the pigeon with love, we will see that the pigeon actually gives us clues about how to be persuasive, kind, adventurous, and assertive.
(8) Updated at 3.55pm GMT 3.22pm GMT NRA head Wayne LaPierre gets a standing ovation before delivering his whiny baby rant about how everyone in Washington is mean to him, all because he runs a little ho-hum national gun manufacturers' lobby.
(9) Despite all this, whiny, pathetic “progressives” grew enraged that Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders, who had largely been mum on race until he’s been forced to confront it this year by Black Lives Matter, was interrupted in Oregon by black activists.
(10) By this point, his career is taking off, but hers is not; she would never be recognised as the gifted, spectacularly whiny poet that she was until after her death.
(11) Perhaps a moratorium on comments such as "You're an idiot" or "I can't trust you with anything" or the word "Daaaad" pronounced in a whiny and generally antagonistic fashion.
(12) It would have been a great speech—I was going to tell you how to look at your own sometimes whiny, narcissistic self with love and actually find your best selves underneath all that fragility.
(13) It feels petty and whiny to say “I don’t like them” when they can stop the spread of disease, but sex with them … well, it’s not really sex.