Example sentences for: kvetch

How can you use “kvetch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Otherwise, I'd be a miserable kvetch.

  • There are plenty of Web sites that will feed you political information--see Jack Shafer's "" for the best--but where can you go on the Net to debate, bicker, blab, argue, spar, kvetch, or just plain gossip about the presidential campaign?

  • Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.

  • An exciting game and watchable halftime show deflated the perennial gripes with Super Sunday, leaving critics only the overhyped, overpriced commercials to kvetch about.

  • Predictably, the film festival's 50 th anniversary is an overhyped bash; and predictably, critics kvetch.


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