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

"Oh, Nick," she snivels with self-pity, "it takes so long to have a baby, you forget what made it seem like a good idea in the first place."

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

He sniveled, crying in a way that hadn’t been acceptable since he was a real little kid.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"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

“O-o-h, will they?” snivelled the old chap, refusing to be comforted, like a veritable Rachel mourning for her children.

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Henry Austin

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

From Marie Claire by John N. Raphael

The greasy string took up the laugh, and snivelled in chorus.

From The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed

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

It's unfathomably huge, the gulf between his self-conception as a noble statesman and the sniveling clown perceived by everyone else.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2023

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

She seemed like such a sniveling, cowardly fool that no one bothered about her until there were only a handful of contestants left.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

So she turned up – snivelling – at the band’s dressing room, took photos for 10 minutes, then beat it.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2019

Nobody – least of all Joaquin Phoenix’s snivelling party entertainer – believed he stood a snowball’s chance in hell.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2019

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

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2018

It would be hard for Bob to see through that façade to the shy, mousy-haired, snivelling idiot she’d been at fourteen.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2011

But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck