Noun : a sentimental snivel. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : She sniveled from the cold. ,Stop sniveling and use your handkerchief. From Dictionary.com.
Vote for who you want to, but you should never, ever again snivel like you are snivelling now. From Wordnik.com. [McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers] Reference
Had we ought to snivel, and give it up at the fust?. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
I don't snivel about what you call moral obligations. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Frank cut himself on an old wicket and began to snivel. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
"Why do I always have to ... to snivel once a job's over?". From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
There! don't howl, for goodness 'sake -- don't snivel, child!. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
Man up or snivel like the punk you are its all the same to me. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers.] Reference
His response was a growl and a snivel and a grab for my legs. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
I asked, and she shook her head, snivel-ling into her handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
Arent these discussions based on how YOU whine and what YOU snivel?. From Wordnik.com. [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference
And he began to snivel then, for the brandy had softened his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
But, as you say, Mr. Warrington, I ought not to snivel like a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Did he whine and snivel because things didn't just fall over for him?. From Wordnik.com. [Give Obama a Chance to Do What?] Reference
The truth was, in the snivel seat in the RV, she was like anyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
D — n the fellow, he has changed his note, and begins to snivel. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Gordo glanced at it and fell silent, except for a snivel now and then. From Wordnik.com. [The Soulforge]
You snivel like a baby when we do it to you but you do it all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » O’Reilly: There’s ‘No Evidence’ Obama Is A Socialist But He Does Believe In ‘Tyranny And Socialism’] Reference
"That wretched brother of his was not worth a snivel, let alone a tear.". From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
"Listen to her whine and snivel," Sevanna sneered, coming to look up at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
I love it when punks like you snivel that we treat YOU the way YOU treat us. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » REPORT: After Voting To Kill Recovery, 110 GOP Lawmakers Tout Its Success, Ask For More Money] Reference
I am always annoyed with phlegm, but to-day I seem to snivel more than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Now the men began to snivel and yelp, following the example of their commander. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
You toss out the insults then snivel like the punk you are when you are insulted. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would ‘absolutely’ abolish Social Security.] Reference
I just love it when punks like you snivel about me treating YOU the way YOU treated me. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » GOP Senate Candidate Rep. Mike Castle Takes Credit For Over $5 Million In Stimulus Funds He Voted To Kill] Reference
I put out more in tips than these pathetic teabaggers pay in the taxes they snivel about. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 16, 2010] Reference
You are rude and condescending then snivel like a punk that I dont treat you with respect. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.] Reference
So your plan is to snivel and cower and pule and whine behind pretenses about “proof”?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront Climate Crisis] Reference
What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Whatever you do (and I address myself in particular, to you in the furthest), never snivel. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
The accent, to our ears, is lost in the pious snivel -- pardon the somewhat unclerical word. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The tears rolled out of her dear old eyes, and my sisters began to snivel, as they always did. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"I'll have you both licked when I get out, that I will," rejoined the boy, beginning to snivel. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
So are you going to snivel like the punk you are that WE are treating YOU the way YOU treat us?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » O’Reilly: There’s ‘No Evidence’ Obama Is A Socialist But He Does Believe In ‘Tyranny And Socialism’] Reference
I don't stand still in the middle of a deal and snivel about what I can do and what I can't do. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Most people would never admit something like that, but weak widdle Boney just loves a good snivel. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » On House GOP Website, Republican Leadership Takes Credit For Successful Stimulus Project] Reference
Yet here you sit bedizened like a saltatrix tonsa, and snivel when you hear the unvarnished truth!. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
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