snivel
verb (used without object)
to weep or cry with sniffling.
Example Sentences
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Nobody – least of all Joaquin Phoenix’s snivelling party entertainer – believed he stood a snowball’s chance in hell.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2019
But it’s true to my relationship with both father and sister; they the daring adventurers, me the snivelling tell-tale.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2018
She hated how the cops—both cops—were staring at her, like they’d never seen anything so sad or so pathetic before, like she was some snivelling little mangy dog.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2010
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
