puling

There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.

We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.

Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!

No puling cloister-maid this that dares not raise her eyes higher than her bridegroom's knee!

Poets are such a quarrelsome lot tooeffeminate, puling, unmanly humbugs!

He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.