Example Sentences

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It would be easier to believe if he hadn’t littered every song with claims that his enemies were omnipresent and all-powerful, while also being sniveling dweebs.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

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

I’d expect Matthew Macfadyen to repeat as the sniveling Tom Wambsgans, but he could split the vote with the likes of Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun and possibly others.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

“But they’re getting all the fame and opportunity,” Milo persisted with a petulance that bordered on sniveling.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller