sniveling

Example Sentences

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They're probably too worried about being fired to ever say anything to him that isn't sniveling agreement with every word.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2024

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

He had seen the girl many times carrying her sniveling little brother on her hip, with a bag on her shoulder or a water jug on her head.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende