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whiner

/hwahy-ner, wahy‐/US // ˈʰwaɪ nər, waɪ‐ //

抱怨者,发牢骚的人,发牢骚者,呜呼哀哉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : someone who complains a lot, especially in a peevish, self-pitying manner or tone:Being a whiner at work just makes you look petty, childish, and untrustworthy.

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Examples

  • Overnight, she was transformed from a Republican with a solid professional reputation into another flaky PC whiner.

  • He is a bullying whiner and a middle-aged man with a lot of cash and no sense of proportion.

  • No doubt I might have gone whining to Andy and made him take back all the things he said, but I am no whiner.

  • I have just carried unpoliteness far enough to make her afraid of me; and to shew her, that I am no whiner.

  • For the whiner got even less mercy from these men, than he that defied and outfaced them.

  • And all because I've spoiled them, because I'm an old whiner, dish-rag!

  • And all because I've spoiled them all, because I'm an old whiner, an old dish rag!