- present participle of snivel.
sniveling
Example Sentences
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They're probably too worried about being fired to ever say anything to him that isn't sniveling agreement with every word.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
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
He had seen the girl many times carrying her sniveling little brother on her hip, with a bag on her shoulder or a water jug on her head.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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