sniveling

Example Sentences

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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

I’d expect Matthew Macfadyen to repeat as the sniveling Tom Wambsgans, but he could split the vote with the likes of Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun and possibly others.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

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

It's worth remembering what a sniveling coward McCarthy is.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022

He had seen the girl many times carrying her sniveling little brother on her hip, with a bag on her shoulder or a water jug on her head.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende