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adjective

as in crying

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yammering

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noun

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as in whining

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as in prattle

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yammering

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verb

present participle of yammer
as in complaining
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake

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Recent Examples of yammering
Noun
Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026 Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them. — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 But ultimately, it's created a lot of yammering and once everyone went to video and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires. — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir. — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 There’s also an inanimate object that directly affects Paul’s future so profoundly that this small prop might as well be a lurking, yammering figure in the diner. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yammering
  1. crying
  2. whining
  3. prattle
  4. complaining
  5. howling
  6. weeping
  7. babble
  8. screaming
Adjective
  • Some in the pro-crying camp pointed to articles and headlines as proof.
    — Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of crying
Noun
  • At low speeds through the town of Imola and villages beyond it, the most prominent sound is the whining of the rear differential.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 18 May 2026
  • That broader perspective may explain why Hamlin’s criticisms rarely sound like post-race whining.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Definition of whining
Noun
  • The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
  • Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of prattle
Verb
  • Rodriguez said in a May phone interview with the Herald that detainees had been complaining when a guard approached him and told him to walk out of the cage where he and other men were housed.
    — Churchill Ndonwie, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
  • These reviews are overall mixed with positive reviews praising USGB’s customer service and negative ones complaining about frequent marketing calls.
    — Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • Either that, or the Daily Mail editors had a howling good time with publication dates.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the scene, swooping down to feast on scraps left behind by the howling canines.
    — Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of howling
Noun
  • The latter was the leader of a failed uprising against the ruling Elizabeth 1, and the weeping stag was often used as a symbol adopted by the Earl’s supporters.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 9 July 2026
  • Kimiya was closest, sprawled across the floor weeping, debris swirling around her.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of weeping
Noun
  • The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
    — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
    — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
Definition of babble
Verb
  • From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).
    — Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026
Definition of screaming

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