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

It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands.

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

She snivels and sniffs and finally calls me out of the kitchen and glares at me.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

"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

But even as the banker sniveled something that made Marlena blanch and stare in horror at her bowl of clam chowder, posters were being slapped up on every surface in town.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“Your clothes look cool to me,” Otto sniveled.

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

“Because, sir,” snivelled the lad, “I didn’t have no money, sir.”

From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene

I snivelled a little; and at last, emboldened by success, I allowed him to gather that there was someone I'd cared for a long, long time—someone who didn't care for me.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

“But, sir,” snivelled Weeks, beginning some explanation, intended no doubt to throw all the blame on me.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

With one grimy little hand, stiff and rough from the cold, the small man smeared the tears from his eyes and snivelled.

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

It sounds a lot better than LARPing “Mad Max,” although it also sounds like a version of Neo who crawled back in the Matrix, sniveling like a scared puppy.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025

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

Its “sounds,” she writes, are those “of the busying and tidying of the quietly controlling. The sniveling and whimpering of the long overlooked, the caterwaul of the brokenhearted.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020

Well, that gives us two possibilities, Victor thought before reheating yesterday's risotto; Then he took the sniveling tortoise to the vet again.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

But it’s true to my relationship with both father and sister; they the daring adventurers, me the snivelling tell-tale.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2018

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 screen faded to black, ending in silence, no titles and a lot of viewers like me offering to make the post-Corrie cuppa and snivelling by themselves in the kitchen.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010

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

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2010

But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck