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
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
It's worth remembering what a sniveling coward McCarthy is.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2022
After a few seconds of me sniveling into her collarbone, I feel her shake her head above me.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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