1
as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
don't be a whiner—the hike's not that difficult
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as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
among the hospital staff the patient in 504 had acquired a reputation for being a whiner
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Recent Examples of whiner
Never mind the man himself, who, anyway, emerges as something of a whiner and malcontent.
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Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
No one likes a draft-day whiner.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
No one likes a draft-day whiner.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiner
Noun
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If family needs cause drama, set kind boundaries and explain them to any complainers.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
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The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Long before food trucks, enterprising business types began selling devil crab on-the-go from their motor scooters and bicycles equipped with insulated carriers.—
Susan B. Barnes,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead of a single shot, oral vitamin K would have to be given in multiple doses for weeks early in the baby's life to offer protection from bleeding.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The condition of the unborn baby was not immediately known.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Occasionally there would be a rumor of a bear roaming around on the mountain.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Eventually, the buying power runs out, the bulls are tapped, profit-taking and short-selling bears take over.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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As children, Keaton often dismissed her younger brother as a crybaby, scaredy cat and a nuisance who was coddled by their mother.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
26 Dec. 2025
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From the instigator to the crybaby, everyone gets to partake in the seasonal chaos.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Arriving in period 1920s dress, bowler hat and leather vest in place, Correll prepared to turn the crank on his ’14 Model T, fully aware of how the term chauffeur fracture came to be.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried Chicken.—
Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Whiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiner. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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