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

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

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

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

"Oh, Nick," she snivels with self-pity, "it takes so long to have a baby, you forget what made it seem like a good idea in the first place."

From Time Magazine Archive

He snivels and squints into the distance, searching the stony brown hills.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

"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

Piggy sniveled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

"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

"Oh, you cunning thing!" exclaimed Polly, throwing her arms around him, while Jocko seized her gown and huddled and snivelled into it, getting away from Ben as far as possible.

From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret

The little ones snivelled as though they were going into danger.

From Marie Claire by Raphael, John N.

He never had no show; he never went a-slidin' like the other little fellers,” said Caleb, suddenly, out of his corner; and he snivelled as he spoke.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

She snivelled a little as she began her story, but soon became more calm.

From Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls by Carsey, Alice

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

They lie like sniveling babies to the judge, feigning remorse in an impotent effort to get mercy.

From Salon ● Sep. 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

“He’s gone, the sniveling little weasel,” said Thor, coming in through another of the four doors.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 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 comedian who found fame as the skinny, snivelling half of Laurel and Hardy was brought up by his maternal grandmother at 3 Argyll Street for the first six years of his life.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

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