Crossword clues for sniveling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snivel \Sniv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniveledor Snivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniveling or Snivelling.] [OE. snivelen, snevelen, snuvelen, freg. of sneven. See Sniff, and cf. Snuffle.]
To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
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To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
Put stop to thy sniveling ditty.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of snivelling English) vb. (present participle of snivel English)
WordNet
n. whining in a tearful manner [syn: snivel]
Usage examples of "sniveling".
Debbie Anne trailed behind her, sniveling more quietly but with no appreciable lessening of drippage from her raw red nose.
Ari felt a knot in her throat that made it hard to swallow, but she was not baby enough to cry, and she hated Amy's sniveling, that hurt her and made nothing any fun anymore.
So stop sniveling about what can't be changed and just soldier on, why don't you?
Enough sniveling, or so thought some of the slackers, just might be enough to get a faster and easier ride to safety.
But they made me a captain and told me to shut up, stop sniveling, and get back to soldiering.
It took us just one meeting to discover that we had become beggars—rotten, whining, sniveling beggars, all of us, because no man could claim his pay as his rightful earning, he had no rights and no earnings, his work didn't belong to him, it belonged to 'the family,' and they owed him nothing in return, and the only claim he had on them was his 'need'—so he had to beg in public for relief from his needs, like any lousy moocher, listing all his troubles and miseries, down to his patched drawers and his wife's head colds, hoping that 'the family' would throw him the alms.
Your code declares that the rational man must sacrifice himself to the irrational, the independent man to parasites, the honest man to the dishonest, the man of justice to the unjust, the productive man to thieving loafers, the man of integrity to compromising knaves, the man of self-esteem to sniveling neurotics.
You delight in preying on those who are weaker than you, but when it comes to fighting fair, you're naught but a sniveling little coward!
He knew instinctively that he had it within his power to atone for every sin committed by man since a sniveling Adam had pointed his finger at Eve and blamed her for giving him the apple.
But once he had broken, once he had come down all the way to sniveling bum territory, it had been as if he had an entirely new perspective on things.
Debbie Anne would turn herself in, sniveling steadily, and ultimately the judicial system would slap her wrist and admonish her to be more careful in the future.
I realized I was in real danger of putting on a Johnny Mathis record and sniveling throughout the night.