snivel

And I whine a little bit and moan and snivel, and that works.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

Deny your partner a Facebook or Twitter account if you want, but don't snivel when people are swirling their fingers round their ears at talk of your name.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011

The Yorkshire Post declared: "Drivel and snivel, in days of challenge and strain, may almost be classed as a minor form of Fifth Column activity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Basketball's all-time biggest draw retires to the golf links, the second-rate wannabes he turned into multimillionaires snivel about their economic hardship, and the league still finds ways to fill the tent.

From Time Magazine Archive

I snivel and sniff and give a weak nod.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Zachary Quinto snivels in prime form as the insecure son of Niagara, and Pearce’s screenplay saves some of its sharpest stuff for their less-than-idyllic relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

Yet another former South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, was described with “sweats, snivels and tears all over his face.”

From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2017

Bruno becomes more interesting, she grows less so, and still she snivels at center stage, whining about her bad luck and mistreatment.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015

The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort of up-to-date Tobacco Road, paved right into town.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m sorry,” he says through snivels, burying his face in his hands.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

"You know what, I, I, I, find that ludicrous. But if it's the case, maybe you'll win a Pulitzer for that," he sniveled.

From Salon ● May 9, 2022

In a surprisingly involved moment, the character cowered and sniveled as the desire for vengeance coursed through me.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2010

He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child!"

From Time Magazine Archive

“Do you have a handkerchief for me, Mother Ida?” he sniveled.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

He sniveled, crying in a way that hadn’t been acceptable since he was a real little kid.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"I didn't realise what I'd done," Tabloid Wayne snivelled to shock Richard Keys and jock Andy Gray in reference to that post-West Ham swearing ballyhoo that folks keep banging on about.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2011

“I was only joking,” snivelled Dick, picking himself up and rubbing his cheek ruefully.

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by John B. Greene

He snivelled and his lips moved with my name.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith

And here are all these people making of themselves—” Miss Tabby stopped and snivelled, and then stopped again to wipe a tear from the tip of her nose.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Natty was too much of a man to give way out and out, but he snivelled a little in spite of himself.

From The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

It would be easier to believe if he hadn’t littered every song with claims that his enemies were omnipresent and all-powerful, while also being sniveling dweebs.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

Um, it might be the last debate before the Iowa caucuses — it is worth your time, even if you just stoop to name-calling like, “begone you sniveling weasel.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

I’d expect Matthew Macfadyen to repeat as the sniveling Tom Wambsgans, but he could split the vote with the likes of Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun and possibly others.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

Nathaniel Sullivan sang the King — Edward II, as imagined by Christopher Marlowe then reimagined by Crimp — with sniveling command, the monarch’s weakness to the fore.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“Hey,” I said, and my voice sounded like a sniveling baby.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

So she turned up – snivelling – at the band’s dressing room, took photos for 10 minutes, then beat it.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2019

When they are named and shamed they diminish in size from terrifying giants to snivelling slugs.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2015

It would be hard for Bob to see through that façade to the shy, mousy-haired, snivelling idiot she’d been at fourteen.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2011

The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2010

It was very quiet again, except for Hooper, snivelling, and the sound of the water.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill