- present participle of snivel.
snivelling
Example Sentences
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Nobody – least of all Joaquin Phoenix’s snivelling party entertainer – believed he stood a snowball’s chance in hell.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2019
When they are named and shamed they diminish in size from terrifying giants to snivelling slugs.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2015
It would be hard for Bob to see through that façade to the shy, mousy-haired, snivelling idiot she’d been at fourteen.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011
The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2010
But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
