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adjective

variants or yauping
Definition of yawpingnext
as in vocal
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest the ticket agent spent hours dealing with yawping customers, furious that their flights had been canceled

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yawping

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verb

variants or yauping
present participle of yawp
as in screaming
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely stop yawping about your problems and try doing something to fix them

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yawping
  1. vocal
  2. screaming
  3. outspoken
  4. complaining
  5. blatant
  6. whining
  7. vociferous
  8. muttering
Adjective
  • Courtney is attuned to the singularity of each, their vocal tics and fixations and privacies, their fledgling channels of desire and uncanny knowledge of beauty.
    — Jamie Hood, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026
  • To his left politically, Roan, who is openly gay, is a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights and in August performed at Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival that raised $20 million for women’s charities.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of vocal
Verb
  • Wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, who had seven catches for 133 yards and a touchdown, was screaming at coaches and teammates on the sideline at the start of the fourth quarter.
    — Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, who was held to seven catches for 133 yards and a touchdown, was screaming at coaches and teammates on the sideline at the start of the fourth quarter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of screaming
Adjective
  • Ovechkin has been outspoken in his support for Vladimir Putin, and his game against the Ottawa Senators came weeks before the World Juniors will be held in Alberta as Russian athletes' participation remains up in the air.
    — Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Earlier Tuesday, Fed governor Christopher Waller, an outspoken member of the central bank’s rate-setting committee, said that a hike of a half-point next month was possible, double the size of the usual quarter-point increase.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of outspoken
Verb
  • By July, morale among immigration officers had dipped below its nadir during the Biden Administration, with agents now complaining of being overextended, inundated with novice recruits, and undermined by inflammatory rhetoric from on high.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Some 35,000 plaintiffs were compensated after complaining of personal injury and property damage to their homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • The blatant suppression of truth is, at least, an easy theme to relate to in the present moment.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
  • This blatant bias in the substance of American studies scholarship was set in motion over a decade ago.
    — Nancy Koppelman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of blatant
Verb
  • Just thank God you were born female and stop whining over your bad choices.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • While the left spent all week whining about Sophie Cunningham's hat and firing squad best practices, us PATRIOTS were biding our time, keeping our heads down, and grinding towards another weekend.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of whining
Adjective
  • The most vociferous opposition has come from Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing secular Yisrael Beiteinu party.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
  • There, the nationalist instincts driving Rubio’s speech found more vociferous expression.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of vociferous
Verb
  • The only thing left in the field was a distraught college kid, pacing back and forth, muttering to himself, and suffering over what might have been.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Max Muncy, whose home run expanded the Dodgers’ lead, was still muttering about the heat nearly 15 minutes after escaping into air conditioning.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of muttering
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