whimper

He scurried into the bushes and hid there, whimpering, while the conversation went on.

"I am one of the whimpering hounds it seems - it's either Jonathan or Alan I would say," said Sir Stephen earlier in the day.

Until recently, it looked as if Sasaki’s first season with the Dodgers was going to end with a whimper.

Out of a men's Euros last year with a whimper, not even at this year's women's event, and a club game with a co-efficient dropping through the floor.

DeChambeau was a shadow of the player who stormed to victory at Pinehurst last June as his title defence faded with a whimper.