snivelling

Example Sentences

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Now of course I wasn't really comparing myself – a snivelling worm of a television critic – to Mary Berry, star of television and Queen of the Victoria Sponge.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013

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

Incredibly, some snivelling types continue to snipe at the mighty champion, pointing out that none of those wins has come by more than two and a half lengths.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010

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