snivel

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

It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

He snivels and squints into the distance, searching the stony brown hills.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

"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

“A lot of good that does me,” the C.I.D. man sniveled.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Piggy sniveled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"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

"I'll go home to my mother and work at dressmaking," snivelled Emma as she prepared to depart.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis

Ichabod evidently did not know “what then,” so he did not say; but snivelled and rubbed one eye with the cuff of the coat he was about to put on.

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

He never had no show; he never went a-slidin' like the other little fellers,” said Caleb, suddenly, out of his corner; and he snivelled as he spoke.

From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

I snivelled a little; and at last, emboldened by success, I allowed him to gather that there was someone I'd cared for a long, long time—someone who didn't care for me.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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

The tough guy bluster is a thin disguise over his true self, which is a sniveling coward.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2022

Papá’s woman said, turning her nose up at us as she reached for her two sniveling daughters and pulled them close.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

But it’s true to my relationship with both father and sister; they the daring adventurers, me the snivelling tell-tale.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2018

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 comedian who found fame as the skinny, snivelling half of Laurel and Hardy was brought up by his maternal grandmother at 3 Argyll Street for the first six years of his life.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

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