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
They lie like sniveling babies to the judge, feigning remorse in an impotent effort to get mercy.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Its “sounds,” she writes, are those “of the busying and tidying of the quietly controlling. The sniveling and whimpering of the long overlooked, the caterwaul of the brokenhearted.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020
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
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