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

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

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

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

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

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

“Do you have a handkerchief for me, Mother Ida?” he sniveled.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

"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 have been guilty of every kind of sin," snivelled the cardinal.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

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

The little ones snivelled as though they were going into danger.

From Marie Claire by John N. Raphael

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

And Dastmalchian, who portrays Bison with an emphasis on sniveling evil, struggles to quietly undercut the character’s cartoonishly menacing getup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It sounds a lot better than LARPing “Mad Max,” although it also sounds like a version of Neo who crawled back in the Matrix, sniveling like a scared puppy.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 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

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

When he reached the end of the silk, he turned to look at the staring servants and the sniveling lord and bent down.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2018

When they are named and shamed they diminish in size from terrifying giants to snivelling slugs.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2015

The funny thing is, they're probably looking at him, thinking: who is this horrid, snivelling little worm of a man they've sent?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012

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