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Grammar : Verb
Spell : sniv-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsnɪv əl

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Définition of sniveling

Origin :
  • Old English *snyflan "to run at the nose" (cf. snyflung "running of the nose"), related to snofl "nasal mucus;" see snout. Meaning "to be in an (affected) tearful state" is from 1680s. Related: Snivelled; snivelling. As a noun from 14c. Melville coined snivelization (1849). Middle English had contemptuous term snivelard (n.).
  • verb complain
  • verb cry
Example sentences :
  • Come, come; don't go to sniveling; be a good girl, and mind the main chance.
  • Extract from : « The Contrast » by Royall Tyler
  • Augustine went off, sobbing and sniveling, dragging her feet in the snow.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • From sobbing, Miss Winthrop dwindled to sniveling, and there she stopped.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • She did not care about him, so what was she sniveling about and making her nose all red?
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • What care have we for monastery bells and sniveling priests!
  • Extract from : « Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France » by George Warton Edwards
  • And that sniveling boy will give me no more of his infernal lip!
  • Extract from : « Cursed » by George Allan England
  • He is only a peasant's sniveling cub, a mountaineer's orphan brat!
  • Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
  • It might do for some sniveling sycophant of learning and money, but he was going forth to—what?
  • Extract from : « The Happy End » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • You know that if there is anything I'm dead sore on it's that sniveling rot.
  • Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) » by John McElroy
  • Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves?
  • Extract from : « The Struggle for Missouri » by John McElroy

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