snivelling

Example Sentences

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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

The screen faded to black, ending in silence, no titles and a lot of viewers like me offering to make the post-Corrie cuppa and snivelling by themselves in the kitchen.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 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