whiner

[ hwahy-ner, wahy‐ ]

noun

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.

Origin of whiner

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Overnight, she was transformed from a Republican with a solid professional reputation into another flaky PC whiner.
Herman Cain Campaign Jokes Get Ugly, Target Anita Hill | Michelle Goldberg | November 12, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He is a bullying whiner and a middle-aged man with a lot of cash and no sense of proportion.
Can Wanda Sykes Save the GOP? | John Batchelor | May 12, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
No doubt I might have gone whining to Andy and made him take back all the things he said, but I am no whiner.
Molly Brown's College Friends | Nell Speed
I have just carried unpoliteness far enough to make her afraid of me; and to shew her, that I am no whiner.
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) | Samuel Richardson
For the whiner got even less mercy from these men, than he that defied and outfaced them.
The Men of the Moss-Hags | S. R. Crockett

And all because I've spoiled them, because I'm an old whiner, dish-rag!
Contemporary One-Act Plays | Sir James M. Barrie
And all because I've spoiled them all, because I'm an old whiner, an old dish rag!
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | Various

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