(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.
Whinger
Definition:
(n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Example Sentences:
(1) And in this seething, darkened bearpit, the night belonged to Campbell and Nevin, not the objectors and whingers off stage, with their agendas and their microphones.
(2) A few weeks later, he was grilled on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman: who was he to advocate revolution, a here-today, gone-tomorrow comedian, an apathetic whinger who couldn’t even be arsed to exercise his democratic right, a “very trivial man” who believed in nothing?
(3) I listened for a conversation I could handle and honed in on a stray whinger, a guy complaining that his festival badge couldn’t check the weather.
(4) As for the MBM whingers, why spoil someone else's fun?
(5) And boy did you enjoy filling in our Official Whingers Form™ to tell us your woes.
(6) You know, the ones who boast about pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and can’t stand whingers and wimps?
(7) The Poles and the Italians were the main whingers at the summit.
(8) "Because it's long-winded, and whingeing, and nobody wants to hear a whinger."
(9) Stories saying that teachers are facing feral youth in the classroom, that they don’t have enough control – or stories saying they’re whingers if they’re raising issues - those debates actively make teaching sound unattractive,” says Ryan.