crybabies

Noun

crybaby (plural crybabies)

1. A baby who cries excessively.
   • A notorious human crybaby, according to her older siblings, parents and the building superintendent, will cry for two hours every two hours, refusing to acknowledge any distinction between crying and other basic infant activities, like “being awake” or “breathing.”2017 September 4, Natalie Angier, “A Baby Wails, and the Adult World Comes Running”, in The New York Times
2. (derogatory, slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
   • Then he used the occasion to humiliate the provost, calling her an example of the censorious crybabies whom he had come to relieve of their responsibility.2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic
3. (derogatory, slang) Someone who takes offense or excessively complains or cries when things are not going well.
   • […]Now there are a lot of crybabies around who are talking about what ought to have done and the bomb ought to have had a demonstration in Japan before you killed all those people. […] I don't care what the crybabies say now because they didn't have to make the decision.1964, Harry S. Truman, 4:20 from the start, in MP2002-359 Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Stop the War, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives...

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