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puling
[ pyoo-ling ]
adjective
- whining; whimpering:
a puling child.
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- puling·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.
From The Daily Beast
We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.
From Project Gutenberg
Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!
From Project Gutenberg
No puling cloister-maid this that dares not raise her eyes higher than her bridegroom's knee!
From Project Gutenberg
Poets are such a quarrelsome lot tooeffeminate, puling, unmanly humbugs!
From Project Gutenberg
He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.
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