50 examples of snivels in sentences

" <Cry, weep, sob, snivel, whimper, blubber, bawl, squall, howl, wail>.

There I was, tied up to a family of sniveling hypocrites.

I do hate to see a tall, stout fellow so sniveling like a girl of fourteen over a dead tomtit.

Beyond that it endures without sniveling, renounces without self-pity, fears no death, rates itself not too great in the scheme of things; so do beasts, so did St. Jerome in the desert, so also in the elder day did gods.

Lord Martin is a venal senator, and a little sniveling fellow."

Now the men began to snivel and yelp, following the example of their commander.

"He is a sniveling scoundrel, who loves liberty, as a hog loves corn for the sake of good living.

[As you Like It]; wail. cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber^, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes

servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c v..

*** I have just now dismissed the sniveling toad Dorcas, who was introduced to me for my pardon by the whining mother.

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.

I will not snivel neither.

"If this country had been what your sniveling little magazine called it we'd never have gone into that fight.

The fog, and frost, and cutting winter winds make him snivel and cry with the cold, and yet there he is out in itin the draughts that blow round the ricks, and through the hedge bare of leaves.

Later Jonas arrived, still sniffling, to announce the hack; and the two gray-garbed women hurried away amid the hysterical snivel of servants and the friendly mewing of Missy, who trotted after them to the front door, tail erect, followed by her latest progeny on diminutive and wavering legs.

If you want to be admired while you are alive, write a religious novel and let the hoi polloi snivel over you and give you gold dollars while you can enjoy 'em and spend 'em.

snivels Jonesy, 'I ain't afraid o-o-of him;' and the strange fact is that he wasn't.

" A stifled snivel was my answer.

Only my duty...." He began to snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his face with it.

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

With a snivel of tears Jenny asked him to follow her, and, while she was mounting in front of him, she turned and said: "It ain't no good, doctor, I ken tell yer; my mother was took just like that, and after she'd once broke the vessel she didn't live a hour."

And by this time they had reached the attic door which, without knocking Jenny opened a little, and, with another snivel, announced, "The doctor, missis.

" "And so you came home to snivel?

" "You're a faithful creature," said the Colonel, rather aggressively, not choosing to break down, "so are you, John; and it is at these moments we find out our friends in the house; and, confound you, I forbid you both to snivel," said he, still louder.

50 examples of  snivels  in sentences