sniveling
- present participle of snivel.
Example Sentences
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Those sequences are so terrifying because you're reduced to this sniveling child character, and it felt different from the types of characters that we usually see you play, which are so headstrong and confident.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025
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
When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears.
From "1984" by George Orwell
