snivel
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And I whine a little bit and moan and snivel, and that works.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021
Deny your partner a Facebook or Twitter account if you want, but don't snivel when people are swirling their fingers round their ears at talk of your name.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
The Yorkshire Post declared: "Drivel and snivel, in days of challenge and strain, may almost be classed as a minor form of Fifth Column activity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Basketball's all-time biggest draw retires to the golf links, the second-rate wannabes he turned into multimillionaires snivel about their economic hardship, and the league still finds ways to fill the tent.
From Time Magazine Archive
I snivel and sniff and give a weak nod.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Zachary Quinto snivels in prime form as the insecure son of Niagara, and Pearce’s screenplay saves some of its sharpest stuff for their less-than-idyllic relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
Yet another former South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, was described with “sweats, snivels and tears all over his face.”
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2017
Bruno becomes more interesting, she grows less so, and still she snivels at center stage, whining about her bad luck and mistreatment.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort of up-to-date Tobacco Road, paved right into town.
From Time Magazine Archive
She snivels and sniffs and finally calls me out of the kitchen and glares at me.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
"You know what, I, I, I, find that ludicrous. But if it's the case, maybe you'll win a Pulitzer for that," he sniveled.
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
In a surprisingly involved moment, the character cowered and sniveled as the desire for vengeance coursed through me.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2010
He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child!"
From Time Magazine Archive
He sniveled, crying in a way that hadn’t been acceptable since he was a real little kid.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
“Your clothes look cool to me,” Otto sniveled.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"I didn't realise what I'd done," Tabloid Wayne snivelled to shock Richard Keys and jock Andy Gray in reference to that post-West Ham swearing ballyhoo that folks keep banging on about.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2011
"Bless you, Mrs. Burnett!" snivelled the Baron, not ashamed of dabbing his eyes with his kerchief.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
“O-o-h, will they?” snivelled the old chap, refusing to be comforted, like a veritable Rachel mourning for her children.
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Henry Austin
Natty was too much of a man to give way out and out, but he snivelled a little in spite of himself.
From The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
At first I only snivelled, but surrendered myself after a few successful ventures, to a loud despairing roar.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
They're probably too worried about being fired to ever say anything to him that isn't sniveling agreement with every word.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
She thought all Janine’s sniveling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2018
The screen faded to black, ending in silence, no titles and a lot of viewers like me offering to make the post-Corrie cuppa and snivelling by themselves in the kitchen.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010
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
She hated how the cops—both cops—were staring at her, like they’d never seen anything so sad or so pathetic before, like she was some snivelling little mangy dog.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2010
It was very quiet again, except for Hooper, snivelling, and the sound of the water.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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