- 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
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
“Well, it does me good. I’m sick of being a sniveling wage slave.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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