snivel
verb (used without object)
to weep or cry with sniffling.
Example Sentences
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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
Now of course I wasn't really comparing myself – a snivelling worm of a television critic – to Mary Berry, star of television and Queen of the Victoria Sponge.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2013
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
But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
