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  • present participle of snivel.
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sniveling







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Those sequences are so terrifying because you're reduced to this sniveling child character, and it felt different from the types of characters that we usually see you play, which are so headstrong and confident.

From Salon Feb. 20, 2025

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

Nathaniel Sullivan sang the King — Edward II, as imagined by Christopher Marlowe then reimagined by Crimp — with sniveling command, the monarch’s weakness to the fore.

From New York Times Aug. 10, 2022

“He’s gone, the sniveling little weasel,” said Thor, coming in through another of the four doors.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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