"whiny" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who complains a lot or someone who is unpleasantly shrill. For example: "The baby was getting whiny because he was tired and wanted to go to sleep."
And everyone left, right and centre has accused him of being both whiny and self-serving.Mr Tenet blames everybody but himself for America's intelligence and foreign-policy mess.
Then, all of a sudden, we get this whiny letter while people are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan that we aren't paying enough attention to Central Europe when we had clearly done that for a very long time," she says.
One can dump a carping husband, but what of whiny toddlers and sullen teens?
As for Jon Huntsman, a former ambassador to China, his run for the Republican nomination was doomed because he was a "lazy, whiny wuss," say his disenchanted staff.The most interesting revelations involve Mr Obama.
The proximity lets the first-class cast play with small gestures, from a pointed eye-roll to the sad sweep of crumbs from a shirt.Reed Birney has a petulant charisma as the "whiny and bitter" Vanya; he moans about lost youth, but with the lazy intelligence of an amusing child.
Girls who delay are described by adults who know them well as "having high intellectual capacity" and being "competent" and "resourceful," whereas those who do not delay gratification are described as being "emotionally labile" and "sulky or whiny".
Wogan, 70 in August, has for 35 years been a lone voice of sanity amid the spandex beauty queens, moustachioed folk musicians and death-metal monsters – but his performance on Saturday was whiny.
But I'm very self-obsessed, as most people are who are in my position… "But I can't become Sting, I can't become Thom Yorke, I can't become whiny and I can't become too wanky – that self-awareness is what I pride myself on in my work.
Woody Allen's spirit also inhabits their whiny sense of entitlement – being outbid on a $25,000 violin at Sotheby's will not rate as a moment of angst for any but the monstrously self-absorbed.
"I get massively irritated with this [adopts whiny voice], 'please feel sorry for us, don't be horrible to us, because we can't help it' [discourse] as if it's wonky wiring".
"When I was a kid, it was okay to scare kids and now they're all whiny and scared".
