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Example sentences for "sniveling"

Lexicographically close words:
snipped; snipping; snippy; snips; snitch; snivelled; snivelling; snob; snobbery; snobbish
  1. So, however, was the sniveling old woman waiting!

  2. Among those present was a young fellow with his chaps tied up; there was a sniveling old woman who patted the young man's shoulder and evoked protesting growls.

  3. That’s a man’s way to do things—not go sniveling ’round here in white flannels all summer, letting a girl hand it to me that way!

  4. And that sniveling boy will give me no more of his infernal lip!

  5. I tell you it was not the same man that had come swimming and sniveling out to the schooner less than forty hours before.

  6. After you've forgotten about that sniveling kid you hated.

  7. There rose up in Fanny's mind a cruelly clear picture of the little, sallow, sniveling school boy of her girlhood.

  8. That tall, sniveling fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer.

  9. Well, only a sniveling idiot can maintain that.

  10. I don't want him to come back here in six months sniveling to be put in shape again.

  11. These sniveling rogues take special pleasure still To make the punishment outweigh the ill.

  12. It is no use either coming to the conclusion that we must renounce life and sniveling like children.

  13. The soul, prostrate in its grief, from which Christophe had banned the usual effects of sniveling melodrama, recovered bit by bit, in a sorrowful effort, to offer its suffering as a sacrifice to God.

  14. She's not my kind, Roy; a damned, sniveling saint isn't my idea of a woman.

  15. So, you see, fun may lead to sniveling as well as to laughing.

  16. Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big, brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a sniveling young shaver.

  17. At the sight of them the lodge brother, the sniveling one who had followed me home in the snow, set up a veritable caterwauling.

  18. As an ambassador you are a tongue-tied, sniveling idiot.

  19. This dumb one, this sniveling one, persisted.

  20. The insane sniveling of this lodge brother distracted me.

  21. And when you speak of sniveling Puritans, speak of them that do snivel.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sniveling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; affected; beggarly; canting; crawling; cry; crying; false; fawning; flattering; groveling; hangdog; hypocritical; ingratiating; insincere; lachrymal; lachrymose; obsequious; parasitic; pharisaical; pietistic; pious; prostrate; sanctified; sanctimonious; sniveling; sobbing; sponging; sycophantic; tear; teardrop; tearful; teary; truckling; unctuous; weeping; weepy; whimpering