Crying
Crying adjective - Needing immediate attention.
Hard to please and crying are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hard to please" instead an adjective "Crying".
Hard to please
Hard to please adjective - (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster".
Crying and hard to please are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crying" instead an adjective phrase "Hard to please".
Both terms in one sentence
- But if you call him out on being vile or don't let him get his way then he'll start crying and whining that everyone is mean to him and that he works so hard to please and gets no respect.
Source: Man Child / Web Comics
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Hard to please and Crying. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crying/hard_to_please
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