snivel
verb (used without object)
to weep or cry with sniffling.
Example Sentences
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So she turned up – snivelling – at the band’s dressing room, took photos for 10 minutes, then beat it.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2019
When Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal calls him “weak and snivelling … whiny, weepy, self-pitying”, voters seem to sense a fellow spirit.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2018
His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2018
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
It was very quiet again, except for Hooper, snivelling, and the sound of the water.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
