- present participle of snivel.
sniveling
Example Sentences
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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
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
He’s an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof who has an awfully high opinion of himself.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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