Example Sentences

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

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

It's worth remembering what a sniveling coward McCarthy is.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022

She seemed like such a sniveling, cowardly fool that no one bothered about her until there were only a handful of contestants left.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins