- 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
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
When he reached the end of the silk, he turned to look at the staring servants and the sniveling lord and bent down.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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