Word: whined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...risk of being labeled whiny by my brother Joe, I would like to take this opportunity to whine about the Steak Lovers' Kit he sent for Christmas a few years back. It included a jar of sauce, four serrated knives, a cutting board and a pointy thing I later identified as a fork thermometer--but no steak...
...shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid of men's looks...
...shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid of men's looks...
...Here With Me" playing in the background is manipulative but deadly effective. Everytime Ben Affleck says "I don't have a last call for the day" someone in my various TV-watching groups invariably says "I don't have a last call either" and we all go into a whine...
...teacher told our class that, if we didn't vote, we'd forfeit our right to complain. There is no more effective scare tactic on a class filled with 13-year-old Jewish boys, other than to mess with our Bar Mitzvah money. But voting so that you can whine is probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might vote for the winner, thus making you partly responsible. Mr. Convery responded to that...