Definitions for whiny

whiny whin·y

Spelling: [hwahy-nee, wahy-]
IPA: /ˈʰwaɪ ni, ˈwaɪ-/

Whiny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in whiny (hinwy).

Definitions for whiny

adjective

  1. complaining; fretful; cranky:

Origin of whiny

First recorded in 1850-55; whine + -y1

Examples for whiny

Any argument I try to hold comes tumbling out in the form of a whiny temper tantrum.

Not that we're all a bunch of whiny babies who can't handle change.

In contrast to his size, which was considerable, this Judge Priest had a voice that was high and whiny.

Crystal visits the Catskills, symbolically, in the show, but his humor is far from the whiny Allen mentality.

Drudge and Boyle responded by calling Obama a whiny race-baiter.

Or maybe we are just whiny wimps, an all-purpose explanation for every descent-of-man phenomenon that never is far off the mark.

He is one of those dogs that look scratchy and whiny at the first glance.

The woman was reading in a whiny, excited drawl: "'One thousand dollars reward for——'"

Near the counter where the food was served out one of the cooks swore interminably in a whiny sing-sing voice.

She does get into whiny states, and is regularly tiresome; and the more you notice her, the worse she is.

Word Value for whiny
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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