- present participle of snivel.
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
There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
The youngest one, maybe he is five or six years old, is sniveling.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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