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snivelling

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sniv·el  (snvl)
intr.v. sniv·eled or sniv·elled, sniv·el·ing or sniv·el·ling, sniv·els
1. To sniffle.
2. To complain or whine tearfully.
3. To run at the nose.
n.
1. The act of sniffling or sniveling.
2. Nasal mucus.
[Middle English snivelen, from Old English *snyflan.]
snivel·er n.
Translations
snivelling sniveling (US) [ˈsnɪvlɪŋ]
A. ADJ → llorón
B. N → lloriqueo m
snivelling [ˈsnɪvəlɪŋ] adj → larmoyant(e), pleurnicheur/euse
snivelling, (US) sniveling
adj → heulend, flennend (inf)
n → Geheul(e) nt (inf), → Geflenne nt (inf)
snivelling sniveling (Am) [ˈsnɪvlɪŋ] adj → piagnucoloso/a
snivelling sniveling (Am) [ˈsnɪvlɪŋ] adj → piagnucoloso/a


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Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
Do I see anything in the way I'm made, which calls upon me to be a snivelling, solemn, whispering chap, sneaking about as if I couldn't help it, and expressing myself in a most unpleasant snuffle?
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In the yard, was the insolvent whose utmost energies were always set on getting into debt, who broke into prison with as much pains as other men have broken out of it, and who was always being cleared and complimented; while the insolvent at his elbow--a mere little, snivelling, striving tradesman, half dead of anxious efforts to keep out of debt--found it a hard matter, indeed, to get a Commissioner to release him with much reproof and reproach.
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