snivel
verb (used without object)
to weep or cry with sniffling.
sniveller
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a word derived from
snivel.
Example Sentences
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I tell you, stranger, that you shall marry the girl, and this sniveller must marry you.
From The People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
At any rate, she was not, as she frequently observed to the scarlet barberries—she was not a sniveller.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
A husband hates a sniveller for a wife.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
Love to all you poor past snivellers from an expectant sniveller.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
Val herself had at one time been "only six," but she hadn't been a sniveller; she had always played fair and never cried.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
