whininess

whininess

(ˈwaɪnɪnɪs)
n
the quality of being whiny
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* Avoidance: Perhaps voters see themselves as a people apart, instinctively detached from politicians' bromides and the press's whininess. Perhaps letter writers intentionally carve out a third way in politics that distinguishes them from politicians and journalists but that resonates with their fellow citizens.
The third voice of American politics
Sarah Silverman's character, Cheri Meyerowitz, is the most stereotyped, and "Jewish," of the ensemble, and she goes all outas perhaps only she canto embody middle-child Cheri in all her bratty, obnoxious whininess. It is truly irritating, as I imagine Silverman thoroughly intended, to watch her failed-actress character shriek at her mother and demand back-up her in her libel lawsuit against Nathan.
A Sort of, Maybe Jewish Movie
The other guys had been hardened by one awful job after another and did their work without the slightest display of whininess. They cut their fingers and didn't care about the saltwater in their wounds.
Fish farm
Prochnik has an excellent ear for good stories, but a book like this sits perilously close to the unlovely neighborhoods of whininess and precious self-regard.
Sounds of silence
Parents often report externalizing symptoms, such as irritability, moodiness, whininess, and loss of interest, while adolescents when questioned report internalizing symptoms, such as sadness, suicidal thoughts, and sleep disturbances not apparent to parents (Jeffrey et al., 2005).
Assessment of adolescents for depression in the pediatric primary care setting
That both clients are young women seems to dovetail with the protagonist's mix of horniness, loneliness and whininess.
Bored to Death
In Vietnam, Nicholas alternated between clingy whininess and a manic whirl of kung-fu punches on the streets.
Whose culture is it, anyway?
(Home run.) Blessedly, they lacked the Bud-breath boorishness of Autzen jerks and the "my-kid-couldn't-be-out!" whininess of Kidsports parents.
Baseball park's debut scores a solid base hit
It sort of sounds like whininess. I always thought that Bush's whininess was just Bush being whiny, but maybe it's a Texas thing."
Primary color
Which is a very useful question, two simple words, which, depending on their inflection, can express everything from dark-night-of-the-soul delving to adenoidal, self-pitying whininess, either one of which is suitable to the occasion of graduating from college.
A Word to Graduates : Organize! It's boring but do it, says the playwright. Otherwise, you allow evil to settle in
From the callousness of the voters to the whininess of the expelled.
The Weakest Link: What the critics said
I read the whininess and the admonitions as evidence of tango women's rebellion.
Whiny ruffians and rebellious broads: tango as a spectacle of eroticized social tension
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