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- adjective persistently
whining orcomplaining
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, Jewish moms tour the camps a year in advance to make sure it's the perfect fit for their kvetchy camper.
Wendy Sachs: Chinese Moms Vs. Jewish Moms: Who Is Mother Superior? Wendy Sachs 2011
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Yes, Jewish moms tour the camps a year in advance to make sure it's the perfect fit for their kvetchy camper.
Wendy Sachs: Chinese Moms Vs. Jewish Moms: Who Is Mother Superior? Wendy Sachs 2011
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I'm generally the easygoing type; I found GHIII-era cartooniness to be sorta cute, I'm not in the business of calling anyone sellouts (not in print, at least!), and I understand the Rock Band preference that most of my friends and colleagues maintain -- excepting a surly, kvetchy period of resistant resentment at the game's launch when it appeared that everyone I knew professionally received a free copy except for me.
Archive 2008-07-01 SVGL 2008
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The baby was crying, hungry, tired, and kvetchy from being forced to sit in one place for so long.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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The baby was crying, hungry, tired, and kvetchy from being forced to sit in one place for so long.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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The baby was crying, hungry, tired, and kvetchy from being forced to sit in one place for so long.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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The baby was crying, hungry, tired, and kvetchy from being forced to sit in one place for so long.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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Just as Pekar looked like a different guy depending on who was drawing him, the filmmakers present him in four guises: as played -- with pained, kvetchy brilliance -- by Paul Giamatti; as an animated black-and-white figure; as he appeared in clips from his ranting guest spots on TV, and as himself -- a pugnacious, gravel-voiced man giving a running commentary on his life and the movie we're watching.
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Next to Val Waxman, the cripplingly neurotic New York filmmaker played by Woody Allen in his new comedy, "Hollywood Ending," most of Allen's kvetchy, self-doubting heroes look like models of mental health.
Flying Blind 2007
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His kvetchy parents, Janet and Martin (Kathy Bates and Barry Levinson) would be horrified if he married a wasp.
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