sniveling

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

It's unfathomably huge, the gulf between his self-conception as a noble statesman and the sniveling clown perceived by everyone else.

They lie like sniveling babies to the judge, feigning remorse in an impotent effort to get mercy.

Papá’s woman said, turning her nose up at us as she reached for her two sniveling daughters and pulled them close.

Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.