Definition of "whimperingly" [whimperingly]

• In a whimpering way. (adverb)

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• "As the machine drew up at the house and Kennan first stepped out, a dog's whimperingly joyous bark of welcome struck Michael as not altogether unfamiliar."
• "The rhetoric about capitalism is almost whimperingly defeatist, especially for an economic system which is so very new to the world scene."
• "If you inquire whimperingly how they can do it, how the ‘department for education and science’ could have allowed this mutilation even to be proposed, the answer is not just that they are barbarians, though that is certainly part of the problem."