snivelling

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2018

The funny thing is, they're probably looking at him, thinking: who is this horrid, snivelling little worm of a man they've sent?

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

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 comedian who found fame as the skinny, snivelling half of Laurel and Hardy was brought up by his maternal grandmother at 3 Argyll Street for the first six years of his life.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 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