How to Use crybaby in a Sentence

crybaby

noun
  • Are any of these crybabies going to pull out his, her, or their checkbooks to support the Whitney?
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Who knew that Weinstein, so feared for so many years, was such an insecure crybaby?
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Odysseus is a sissy, a crybaby, Jay informs the class, who are hooting with laughter.
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Super-deep repertoire of falls and flails, plus a classic crybaby Flop Face.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • One is a petulant, frowny-faced, tantrum-throwing crybaby who has never been held accountable for anything.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 13 Dec. 2019
  • As children, Keaton often dismissed her younger brother as a crybaby, scaredy cat and a nuisance who was coddled by their mother.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Now a few of these crybaby women have started to talk to reporters, and Bailey has decided his only way out is to kill himself.
    — Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • From the instigator to the crybaby, everyone gets to partake in the seasonal chaos.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Despite being a crybaby at the peak of her break-up with Warner, Woods’ strength lies in her ability to go within and trust her intuition.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
  • The Angels’ injuries have made the season difficult enough without a manager acting like a crybaby every time a call doesn’t go his way.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The multi-million-dollar crybabies of the NFL need to take a lesson from these young Americans.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Trump has brought back respect for law enforcement, the military and the American flag despite the Hollywood crybabies and their ilk.
    — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
  • In a season in which referees against players has become a league-wide problem, the Warriors, noble champions of two of the past three seasons, have become what some would call crybabies.
    — Scott Ostler, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Christie has long criticized Trump for skipping and threatening to skip the Republican events, calling him a crybaby, loser and other taunts.
    — Chris Christie, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • So does Bennett Morgan, whose King Ethelred morphs from bedridden crybaby to power-hungry murderer.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • Christopher Cantwell, the crybaby who was seen sobbing on camera after finding out there was a warrant for his arrest, has been removed from both Facebook and Instagram.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 17 Aug. 2017
  • In this shadow story, Harding wasn’t a monster but a victim, an underdog unfairly vilified, and Kerrigan was a crybaby who made too much of her pain.
    — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The ostensibly proper balance — confident and strong but not arrogant and aggressive, sensitive without being a crybaby — is subjective and murky.
    — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Often, detractors use both tactics against the same women – infantilizing them as princesses or crybabies, and also smearing them as craven or crazy (just ask Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi).
    — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 10 Oct. 2017

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