sniveling
Example Sentences
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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
Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
To me, it seemed like a reasonable bit of rhetorical balm, an exhortation to summon the better angels of our nature, but Oliver saw it as a sniveling, sanctimonious, hypocritical lie.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2021
After a few seconds of me sniveling into her collarbone, I feel her shake her head above me.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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