sniveler

In front of enormous rally audiences, Mr. Trump painted Mr. DeSantis as a submissive sniveler, insisting that he had cried and begged “on his knees” for an endorsement in the 2018 Florida governor’s race.

The wife becomes risibly alarmed, and the man turns sniveler, racing to the phone to tell the cops to retract his story.

For one thing, he’s just sort of a lame character — a one-note sniveler who seems to be hanging around just to give us something to hiss at.

It has been repeated over and over for several hundred years by pious pretenders and snivelers as though it belonged exclusively to them.

He had great respect for the feelings and convictions of others, but he was not a sniveler.