snivelling

Example Sentences

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So she turned up – snivelling – at the band’s dressing room, took photos for 10 minutes, then beat it.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2019

His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2018

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

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