snivel
verb (used without object)
to weep or cry with sniffling.
Example Sentences
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The funny thing is, they're probably looking at him, thinking: who is this horrid, snivelling little worm of a man they've sent?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
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
The comedian who found fame as the skinny, snivelling half of Laurel and Hardy was brought up by his maternal grandmother at 3 Argyll Street for the first six years of his life.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011
The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2010
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
