sniveling
Example Sentences
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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
Aunt Kitty seemed to value her detective work far above anything else in her life—especially a long-lost, sniveling kin.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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