sniveling
Example Sentences
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It's unfathomably huge, the gulf between his self-conception as a noble statesman and the sniveling clown perceived by everyone else.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023
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
Aunt Kitty seemed to value her detective work far above anything else in her life—especially a long-lost, sniveling kin.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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