snivelling

Example Sentences

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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

She recalls turning up at the door of their hotel suite, snivelling, in the middle of a downpour.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 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

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