- present participle of snivel.
sniveling
Example Sentences
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She also – gasp – views the sniveling Mr. Collins favorably.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
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
Papá’s woman said, turning her nose up at us as she reached for her two sniveling daughters and pulled them close.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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