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Whine

noun

A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way. Synonym: whimper.

verb

(past & past part. whined; pres. part. whining)

Move with a whining sound.

Talk in a tearful manner. Synonym: snivel.

Make a high-pitched, screeching noise. Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak. "My car engine makes a whining noise"

Complain whiningly. Synonyms: grizzle, yammer, yawp.

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"Whine" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fresh and scented air in the broadest and most crowded road, from which, afar in the distance, rose the spires of the metropolis. The boy let loose from the day-school was hurrying home to dinner, his satchel on his back: the ballad-singer was sending her cracked whine through the obscurer alleys, where the baker's boy, with puddings on his tray, and the smart maid-servant, despatched for porter, paused to listen. And round the shops where cheap shawls and cottons tempted the female eye, many a loitering ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 5 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... spoke Creagan, suddenly white and haggard. His voice was a cringing whine; his eyes groveled. "Marr was at Lisner's house. We all went over there after the fight. Lisner waked Marr up—he'd been tryin' to egg Marr on to kill Foy all day, but Marr was too drunk. He was sobering up when we waked him. Lisner tried to rib him up to go after Foy and waylay him—told him he ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... shows the horns. The thing is that we have no peace in our monastery; there is always such a noise and clatter there. Everything is quiet outside; but inside there are groans and gnashing of teeth. Some groan, some whine, and some complain about something, you can't tell what. When you pass the doors, you feel as if your soul were taking leave of the world behind every door. Suddenly something glides from around the corner.—and there's a shadow on the wall. Nothing ...

— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev

... Present myself? Bah!" he added, almost fiercely. "I wish the girl would keep her black eyes to herself. I want to tell you this, Kendricks. You've talked some splendid common sense to me without going out of your way to do it. I am not going to whine, now or at any other time, but as long as I live I never want anything more to do with a woman. That sounds about the most futile and empty-headed thing a man can say—I know that. But there it is. I tell you the very thought of them makes me shudder. They're like ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... an idea that God looks with the same kind of contempt on the prominent characteristics of certain styles of Christian men and women, that men of the world do. There is nothing admirable in cant and whine, and nasal psalm-singing, and men whose hearts are livers and whose blood is bile; and I cannot believe that He blames people for not admiring them, and not being attracted to them. I do not believe that an admirable Christian ...

— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb

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