Example Sentences

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Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were in the smoking room, so we pretended we'd come to look for Hilda's pocket snuffler.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.

"Here forsooth is dolorous doleful dirge—out on thee for sad and sorry snuffler!"

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

Henry and Robert Foster denounced their prospective father-in-law as a fortune-hunter, a snuffler, a hypocrite.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur

One of the proofs of his inventive genius was a mechanical snuffler that he had made of a shoe-polish tin.

From The Quest by Goldberg, Isaac