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

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

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

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

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

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"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

"But it's so strange!" snivelled the little woman.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Abel, sitting near her, snivelled softly for sympathy, not fairly comprehending her cause for tears.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The fellow would not understand; he snivelled obstinately, and struggled aimlessly in Acton's grasp.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson

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

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

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

She thought all Janine’s sniveling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

She recalls turning up at the door of their hotel suite, snivelling, in the middle of a downpour.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 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

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

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