- present participle of snivel.
snivelling
Example Sentences
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She recalls turning up at the door of their hotel suite, snivelling, in the middle of a downpour.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2019
When Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal calls him “weak and snivelling … whiny, weepy, self-pitying”, voters seem to sense a fellow spirit.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2018
His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2018
She hated how the cops—both cops—were staring at her, like they’d never seen anything so sad or so pathetic before, like she was some snivelling little mangy dog.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 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
