sniveler

Example Sentences

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The wife becomes risibly alarmed, and the man turns sniveler, racing to the phone to tell the cops to retract his story.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2016

For one thing, he’s just sort of a lame character — a one-note sniveler who seems to be hanging around just to give us something to hiss at.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2015

I wasn’t sure which notion to take more offense to: that she was still looking into orphan homes or that she considered me a sniveler.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Or else I would have flung myself in despair upon the ever-imploring bosom of my lugubrious sniveler.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Smith, Wallace

She waited some seconds, crossing her arms over her breast, and then, in a shrill, vibrating, exasperated voice, said: "Ha! you sniveler, is this the way you leave me?"

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Maupassant, Guy de