单词 | sniveling |
例句 | What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “But they’re getting all the fame and opportunity,” Milo persisted with a petulance that bordered on sniveling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Papá’s woman said, turning her nose up at us as she reached for her two sniveling daughters and pulled them close. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When he reached the end of the silk, he turned to look at the staring servants and the sniveling lord and bent down. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Well, that gives us two possibilities, Victor thought before reheating yesterday's risotto; Then he took the sniveling tortoise to the vet again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His aunt hit him, and he choked back his wail with a sniveling cough. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He grabbed hold of his sniveling crony and started shaking him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Guys sniveling about how they didn’t get any parades. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of my sight, you sniveling little wretch,” he grated, thrusting Friar Hugo away from him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My face twists, and before I know it I’m sniveling like a child. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I said, and my voice sounded like a sniveling baby. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z "Then tell him to come here and demand it himself. I will not bow to his sniveling lackeys." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z If I could respond to him, I’d say, Stop sniveling and die somehow already. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I have to bury the real pain because who's going to bet on a tribute who keeps sniveling over the deaths of her opponents. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He had seen the girl many times carrying her sniveling little brother on her hip, with a bag on her shoulder or a water jug on her head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Get your sniveling self to the orphan house where they’ll feed you and dry your tears. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Told me I got what I deserved and to quit sniveling. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Do? You will do as we all do each day—our best with what God has given us. Now, if you are quite through with your sniveling, go to class.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He hopes there will be no sniveling and pants wetting among the passengers, that no one will go berserk and start screaming, and trigger a jittery massacre. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She seemed like such a sniveling, cowardly fool that no one bothered about her until there were only a handful of contestants left. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The youngest one, maybe he is five or six years old, is sniveling. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He’s an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof who has an awfully high opinion of himself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “He’s gone, the sniveling little weasel,” said Thor, coming in through another of the four doors. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “But I may change my mind if you do not leave off that whining and sniveling.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Well, it does me good. I’m sick of being a sniveling wage slave.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z After a few seconds of me sniveling into her collarbone, I feel her shake her head above me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z If you’re not a sniveling mess by the time you get through the bridge of “A Mother Never Rests,” don’t tell mom. Best music of 2018: Serpentwithfeet has a voice unlike any other 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z "If I talk about it, people are going to say I'm sniveling," says Harrick from his home in Southern California. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z The book did not make him out to be that much of a sniveling, simmering idiot! ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Bondy showed us flawed people behaving like dissociated sniveling cowards while surrounded by vile people behaving worse. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z To me, it seemed like a reasonable bit of rhetorical balm, an exhortation to summon the better angels of our nature, but Oliver saw it as a sniveling, sanctimonious, hypocritical lie. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Mainstream media fawning over Biden? Hardly. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Edge of Tomorrow Tom Cruise is a sniveling coward sent into future combat, forced to relive the last day of his life over and over again. The Best Movies That Didn't Get Nominated for Any Oscars This Year 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z I wanted them to cry sniveling tears in front of a crowd of jeering, joyful classmates. When Mothers Bully Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z In that episode, Pete Campbell turned a corner from a sniveling brat into a hard-edged ad man when he tried to help the firm land the American Airlines account even before his father’s funeral. Mad Men Watch: Domesticity and its Discontents 2012-04-16T11:00:29Z Facing a panel of sniveling political opportunists intent on impeaching him, Duncan knows he sounds “like a lawyer” caught in “a semantic legal debate,” but darn it, he’s trying to save the United States! Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s ‘The President Is Missing’ is an awkward duet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And instead of quietly sniveling in the loo after her co-worker Kevin admits that he doesn’t like her, she keeps going after him. ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Recap: Hannah Gets a Job With Free Snacks 2014-02-10T03:30:31Z Mr. Owens’s Alberich was no sniveling dwarf, but a barrel-chested, intimidating foe, singing with stentorian vigor, looking dangerous in his dreadlocks and crazed in his fantasy of ruling the universe. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z I don't resent Garcia because I was still sniveling under my sunglasses 15 minutes after Mother and Child was over. Mother and Child: The Heartache of Adoption 2010-05-07T18:00:00Z Its “sounds,” she writes, are those “of the busying and tidying of the quietly controlling. The sniveling and whimpering of the long overlooked, the caterwaul of the brokenhearted.” Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Nathaniel Sullivan sang the King — Edward II, as imagined by Christopher Marlowe then reimagined by Crimp — with sniveling command, the monarch’s weakness to the fore. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Her voice dripped with all the sniveling sanctimony of a child on the near side of puberty. My lady mustache 2013-03-02T23:00:00Z Okay, I hear me sniveling that I’m allowed to make good-natured jokes about Jewish stereotypes because I’m Jewish. Gene Weingarten: An error of comedies 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Excuse me, but I need to be a sniveling fan-boy for just a second. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It shows us that addicts are more than statistics, their codependents more than “sniveling, whimpering, and brokenhearted.” Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z How dare the NYT think it can continue to print these sniveling, spineless editorials that claim to be brave examinations of cultural norms, when it is exactly the opposite. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z They lie like sniveling babies to the judge, feigning remorse in an impotent effort to get mercy. The Proud Boys aren't sorry — luckily, prison works great at stymying their terrorist impulses 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It's worth remembering what a sniveling coward McCarthy is. Trump, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon: GOP goons follow a familiar playbook when accountability knocks 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The tough guy bluster is a thin disguise over his true self, which is a sniveling coward. Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Gaetz, for instance, issued a statement calling McCarthy "weak" and "sniveling." Why does McCarthy continue to be backed by Trump? Because he's not in charge. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Since then, the former president has doubled down: more claims of election fraud, more puckering up for Vladimir Putin, more feuds with insufficiently sniveling Republicans, more cowbell. Opinion | Americans hoping for political peace are in for more disappointment 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But unlike a lot of the sniveling lapdogs of former president Donald Trump, Thomas was unreasonable in private, not just for the cameras. Opinion | John Roberts must be at his limit 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Crucially, this latest story is a reminder of what a sniveling coward Trump is. How Trump's cowardice hobbled his coup 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “He was a coward. An absolute coward. He looks like a man, but he’s not a man. He’s a sniveling coward,” Judd told reporters. Sheriff: Florida family massacre followed random encounter 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But I fully admit that, on a purely personal level, I'm deeply disgusted by just what sniveling cowards Republicans are being as they go about this. Republicans, too cowardly to openly defend January 6 insurrections, continue to gaslight Americans 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z When Hawley goes scraping and sniveling onto the Senate floor Wednesday to present to the world a case he knows to be untrue, he may think that he’s impressing the Trump voters. Opinion | Hawley isn’t impressing Trump voters. He’s entertaining them with his humiliation. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z They could then return to playing the role of moral arbiters and upright patriots, which they spent years selling to the public, and hope that nobody remembered what sniveling invertebrates they really are. Trump's got his Supreme Court coup lined up — and Republicans like Lindsey Graham will back his play 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z White House officials can't settle on a coherent narrative for a simple reason: Trump's decision to tear gas protesters exposed the lie behind his tough-guy preening, showing that he's actually a sniveling coward underneath. Trump's trapped in his own bunker of fear — with his fan base of right wing cowards 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z He channeled every sniveling sidekick in every 1980s action movie; Trump loved it. What Are We Watching in the White House’s Coronavirus Briefings? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “This sniveling weasel thinks everything belongs to him because he was born into a rich family, just like his father-in-law,” Meyer continued. Stephen Colbert on masks: 'Of course Trump says he doesn’t want to wear protection' 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The latest screen adaptation of Jack London’s 1903 adventure saga transforms the novel’s menacing gold prospector into a cartoon, played by a sniveling Dan Stevens. Review | This canine tale is sloppy, like a big dog. But you can’t deny its gentle heart. 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Cruz called Trump a “sniveling coward,” a “pathological liar” and “utterly amoral,” and infuriated Republicans when he declined to endorse the nominee at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Ted Cruz once called Trump ‘utterly amoral’ and a ‘sniveling coward.’ Then he worked to save his presidency. 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z “Their sniveling fealty and lack of courage. And you begin to get it.” Alec Baldwin compares Trump to Hitler in Twitter rant bashing Republicans 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s hard to think of a more dismissive way of phrasing that, short of maybe describing the Singapore government as a sniveling mosh pit of baby clowns. Singapore’s fake news law should be a warning to American lawmakers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Truly, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” as the sniveling Washington Post likes to preach every day. List of trusted journalistic sources shrinks in post-Mueller report world 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Mays, summoning the snooty, snarling and sniveling voices of Victorian England, is the rare gem that gives this production its mesmerizing glint. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Nov. 18-25: 'Cost of Living,' 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern' and more 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He savaged Trump as a “pathological liar,” an “amoral bully” and a “sniveling coward.” Trump gives 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz new nicknames 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The lawmaker referred to Mr. Trump as a “sniveling coward” after Mr. Trump made fun of his wife. Trump says Cruz is now ‘Beautiful Ted’ 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Are we to pretend we did not witness the tantrum a week ago, a fit of such epic proportions that no amount of time will erase that indelible sneer, that sniveling? Kavanaugh Is Sworn In After Close Confirmation Vote in Senate 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Asked how he can cozy up to a politician he called a “sniveling coward” and “utterly immoral,” Cruz demurs. Can Beto O'Rourke awaken Texas' Latino vote? His bid to turn the state purple depends on it - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Cruz called Mr. Trump a “pathological liar” and “a sniveling coward.” In Texas, Ted Cruz Has ‘a Dogfight on His Hands,’ Some Republicans Admit 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, as their rivalry intensified, Cruz told Americans that Trump is a “pathological liar,” a “bully,” a “narcissist,” “utterly amoral,” and my personal favorite, a “sniveling coward.” Asked about Trump's pardon power, Cruz offers 18 seconds of silence 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Facing a panel of sniveling political opportunists intent on impeaching him, Duncan knows he sounds "like a lawyer" caught in "a semantic legal debate," but darn it, he's trying to save the United States! James Patterson and Bill Clinton's authorial debut is... awkward 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The article is a model of “sniveling” political cowardice. Opinion | Trump is where the end begins 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Coming from someone as deeply tied into the conservative movement as Mr. Cruz — who also called Mr. Trump “a sniveling coward” and a “big government liberal” when they were opponents — such praise is striking. Still Glad You Voted Trump? At CPAC, Conservatives Had an Answer 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Cruz’s immediate reaction was to strongly denounce and attack Trump, calling him a “sniveling coward.” Is Ted Cruz human? An investigation 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z It is that he is weak and sniveling. Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z So then he’s always been a sniveling little weasel who misses the message of Rage Against The Machine. Paul Ryan has fantasized about destroying Medicaid since he was “drinking at a keg” in college 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Early in his career, Glenn developed the art of “sniveling.” How John Glenn Became an Astronaut, as Told in 1962 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “The little whiny, sniveling, negative cowards that were never Trump-ers are beneath our paying attention to them,” said Gingrich of the many Republicans who did not support Trump. WATCH: Newt Gingrich tells Sean Hannity that Donald Trump shouldn’t listen to moderate Republicans 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s, as he says, guy-to-guy locker-room talk, and any man who says he has never engaged another guy in such a way is nothing but a sniveling liar. Readers react to controversy over Donald Trump's 'locker-room talk' 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Since then he has shown little inclination to fulfilling the pledge he took last year to support his party’s eventual nominee, calling his rival amoral, a narcissist and a sniveling coward. Ted Cruz suggests 'challenging days' ahead for GOP 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He called him a sniveling coward, a narcissist, a big loud New York bully and he was positive that he would win the nomination. “Donald you’re a sniveling coward”: Here is the best of Ted Cruz sh*t-talking Donald Trump 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z To bookend Cruz’s day with another slam from a congressional colleague, Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to Facebook to call him a whiny, sniveling loser. Ted Cruz is America’s most desperate fanatic: Why he’s unlikely to give up his (probably doomed) quest for the nomination 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Cruz responded by calling Trump a “sniveling coward” and has hedged on whether or not he can still support him if he wins the nomination. Wisconsin race tests impact of GOP campaign’s latest ugly turn 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Can we act like more than sniveling, little snot-nosed kids here for a moment? Readers react to controversy over Donald Trump's 'locker-room talk' 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Cruz, who denied involvement with the ad, responded by calling Mr. Trump a “sniveling coward” and demanding that he “leave Heidi the hell alone.” Donald Trump, Ted Cruz National Enquirer feud spills into Sunday talk shows 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Cruz defended his wife on Twitter and at a press conference called Trump a “sniveling coward” for attacking women. Trump and Cruz's Wives Are Not Political Props 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is the worst kind of bully: The kind who is also a sniveling coward. Trump’s gutless blame glame: He’s a sniveling coward who won’t take responsibility for the disgusting violence he stokes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Instead we got embers, along with the un-presidential portrayal of Republicans as sniveling wimps whose fears about refugees were akin to their complaints about tough debate questions.” Obama’s post-Paris leadership: Pushing back against the alarmist temptation 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The trailer also showed a sinister, sniveling Jared Leto as the Joker. The Latest: Amell sports new ‘Arrow’ costume at Comic-Con 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Leto’s sniveling Joker, who sounds strikingly similar to Heath Ledger’s version, closed the trailer with an ominous threat. Ben Affleck debuts ‘Batman v Superman’ footage at Comic-Con 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Leto's sniveling Joker, who sounds strikingly similar to Heath Ledger's version, closed the trailer with an ominous threat. Ben Affleck, Will Smith debut 'Batman v Superman,' 'Suicide Squad' footage at Comic-Con 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z If I were a Washington sports fan, I’d be right there in the hospital with you, sniveling and crying. LOVERRO: Loyal Washington sports fans tired of getting slapped in face 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Oh, this is too hard,” Boehner said, in a tone deriding House Republicans as if they were sniveling children. Boehner laments 'knuckleheads' within House GOP 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “She would rather it be a non-issue. But if the other team is sniveling on the bench or something like that, I think she uses that as added motivation.” A woman among boys: Georgetown Day’s Julia Ernst succeeds as a female wrestler 2014-02-12T20:38:49Z He cut his teeth in Republican politics by working for that sniveling RINO, Richard Nixon, after all. “Chris Christie is NOT a conservative”: How the right-wing media is responding to the Christie scandal 2014-01-09T15:55:00Z The operative phrase is "He really should be put away" - behind bars, with the other war criminals - Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and their sniveling pack of apparatchiks. Joe Klein: Benghazi and Dick Cheney's Staggering Lack of Self-Knowledge 2013-05-15T17:35:57Z “A sniveling, lying, cheating little wretch” is how CNN talk-show host Piers Morgan characterized Armstrong on Twitter, adding, “I hope he now just disappears.” Lance Armstrong interview analysis: He confessed, but . . . 2013-01-18T22:42:25Z I don't want you to sit by my side and hold my hand, as some sniveling fools would wish. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z He was blinded with blood and pain, and shouted for help in sniveling terror. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z He remained defiant at a hearing last month before the state Pardon and Parole Board, telling the board he wasn’t “here today crying, begging or sniveling for my life.” Okla. inmate put to death for fatal stabbing during 1994 fight; 1st US execution this year 2012-01-06T00:19:43Z Of course, one man’s sincere tear is another man’s sniveling manipulation. Weeping Before Judge, as Carl Kruger Did, Is Common 2011-12-23T04:08:07Z If the Anglo-Saxon race would drop its sniveling cant it would have a good deal less of a "burden" to carry. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z And don't you go and pretend that I'm not more to you than that brainless, chinless, sniveling, driveling little fool of an Englishman, for I won't believe it!' The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z There stood his son-in-law, with scarcely a shirt to his name, and his daughter, and she had none too much to wear, and was crying and sniveling at a fearful rate. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z You don't find the big fellows sniveling over that particular shadow-side of Nature. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Quit, shut your sniveling charities; have mercy Not on these paupers, imbeciles, diseased ones, But on the progeny you let them breed. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z “Do you want the crowd outside to hear your sniveling?’ Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z To see him like that, his laughing self again, after the nightmare we'd just been through, set me to sniveling—darn it, I was excited and only a kid, but I cried—yes, I cried. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z All the same, it's a holy joy to see you like that, sniveling and begging. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z So what's wrong with learning to stop sniveling and "be a man?" Being a Mama's Boy: Good for Your Health? 2010-08-27T09:45:00Z Thank God I haven't—but your mother had, and that precious sniveling grandmother of yours has another grandson. Ewing\\'s Lady And that father of yours—that sniveling old hypocrite—he'll crawl to make the lines, if I choose.... Where the Pavement Ends I grabbed the sniveling little Ollie and held him between us with my hands around his neck. Backlash You know that if there is anything I'm dead sore on it's that sniveling rot. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves? The Struggle for Missouri Come, now," he added, "cut out that sniveling! Their Son; The Necklace I find nothing in it, except that he soils the Holy Scriptures like a sniveling child; in no place does he show a mastery of his words or an understanding of his subject. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) She did not care about him, so what was she sniveling about and making her nose all red? The Wall Street Girl The woman, Dutch Annie, sniveling and sobbing, was lodged in a cell near the gangster before being brought before the rail to face the magistrate. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Her ratlike little face—soft voice like a purring, sniveling cat! Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 "Undoubtedly he has a highly decentralized nervous system," nodded Hendricks, who was, as I have said, something of a practical scientific man, although no laboratory worker or sniveling scientist. The Terror from the Depths Liable to sudden gusts of anger, he was equally capable of knocking the life out of a comrade with his gigantic fist or of comforting some sniveling street urchin crossing his path. A Nest of Spies From sobbing, Miss Winthrop dwindled to sniveling, and there she stopped. The Wall Street Girl Simon Gosler was left mumbling and sniveling and fingering his coat pocket, in which he kept his glass. Mr. Wicker's Window Well, only a sniveling idiot can maintain that. The Brothers Karamazov Lord Chief-Justice—Thou art a strange, prevaricating, shuffling, sniveling lying rascal. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) The insane sniveling of this lodge brother distracted me. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath As for little Elva, she went moping about the house, with red eyes, sniveling in the most undisguised manner. Her Mother's Secret "None of your sniveling around me," said the vile man. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 “That tall, sniveling fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer.” The Brothers Karamazov I'd sooner by half, though I lose by it, see a man tear his clothes a-purpose to spile 'em before they come to me, than find him sniveling. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 At the sight of them the lodge brother, the sniveling one who had followed me home in the snow, set up a veritable caterwauling. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Can’t you even watch out for a sniveling little kid crossing the street?” It’s like this, cat The sniveling animals didn't even seem to want to defend themselves. The Highest Treason The child's whole aspect and the sniveling sounds he made were so hatefully ugly. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance But the thing will work its own cure, and a sound-hearted and courageous people weary at length of sniveling over their disasters. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) As an ambassador you are a tongue-tied, sniveling idiot. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath You take my advice and cheer up instead of continually sniveling. The Jolliest School of All After the dance was over, just like the sniveling little coward he is, he got his father and went to the Richmond house. The Cross-Cut I tell you it was not the same man that had come swimming and sniveling out to the schooner less than forty hours before. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story And when you speak of sniveling Puritans, speak of them that do snivel. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People I was babbling, sniveling and crying, and I begged all the harder. Home Again, Home Again You stole a car, you endangered lives, and now you want to go sniveling to the authorities because Sony played a little rough when they brought you in? Eastern Standard Tribe Of all God's creatures a sniveling woman is the worst. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow I'm not fooled by the sentimentalism of the profession or the sniveling claims of being an apostle of public enlightenment. Success A Novel They will now return half laughing, half sniveling, and to-morrow no one will think of it again. Madame Chrysantheme Howsoever, it's no use standing here sniveling; so, let's get on. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times Last there was a dog,—a mean, sniveling, stump-tailed dog, of no particular breed or kidney. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others I don't want him to come back here in six months sniveling to be put in shape again. Twelve Men You dirty, sniveling priest's whelp!" roared Lapoulle, "so that is why you sneak away from us! The Downfall Take your sobbing, sniveling, trembling, dolorous, sanctimonious voice down into some dismal swamp and bury it. Supreme Personality He was always the Master, and never sought to make of his followers cringing creatures and whining and sniveling supplicants. Mystic Christianity I'm soured on seeing a strapping, healthy woman sniveling over a little sick-eyed cur. Every Soul Hath Its Song If this country had been what your sniveling little magazine called it we'd never have gone into that fight. The Wrong Twin This man here, Brace Dunlap, that's been sniveling so about his dead brother that YOU know he never cared a straw for, wanted to marry that young girl there, and she wouldn't have him. Tom Sawyer, Detective This clacking and sniveling is enough to kill a well man, let alone one lying on the edge of his grave. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates The others played out the game, slowly, painfully, stumbling on the rough earth, muffing the easiest shots, watched only by the small boy and his sniveling sister. Main Street You sniveling cur," said Chalmers, high and virtuous, "how dare you say such a thing! The Cost Some one else was in the room, sniveling and crying. Where There's a Will Adj. 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. Roget's Thesaurus Augustine went off, sobbing and sniveling, dragging her feet in the snow. L'Assommoir I fear that this will lead to an estrangement, for, when I return at night, my wife's nose is so red from sniveling all day that I can hardly bear to look at her. Remarks The soul, prostrate in its grief, from which Christophe had banned the usual effects of sniveling melodrama, recovered bit by bit, in a sorrowful effort, to offer its suffering as a sacrifice to God. Jean-Christophe Journey's End So, however, was the sniveling old woman waiting! All-Wool Morrison Can't you write a civil reply to a civil letter without sniveling? A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day It might do for some sniveling sycophant of learning and money, but he was going forth to—what? The Happy End Adj. 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.. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases It is no use either coming to the conclusion that we must renounce life and sniveling like children. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Among those present was a young fellow with his chaps tied up; there was a sniveling old woman who patted the young man's shoulder and evoked protesting growls. All-Wool Morrison "He is not," cried Compton, almost sniveling; but he altered his mind, and fired up. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day He is a sniveling scoundrel, who loves liberty, as a hog loves corn for the sake of good living. Wyandotte There I was, tied up to a family of sniveling hypocrites. The Unspeakable Gentleman "You had better stop your sniveling," said Frank sharply, thoroughly disgusted with the cowardly old rascal. The Boy Aviators in Africa A second urchin preferred a modest request, and Frank had just completed the second whistle when the boy he had sent away contented came back sniveling. The Boys of Bellwood School Now Isabel--a great disgust rose in him for the sniveling, selfish little thing and her impotence in the face of his trouble. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites Campia goes to sleep off and on from exhaustion, but she wakes up howling and keeps blubbering and whining and sniveling. The Unwilling Vestal So long as they are shooting a man and not a sniveling skunk and softy, I can stand up to them and take all they can give me—game. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet Who came creeping and sniveling, and took my hand under the counter, and pressed it to give me courage, and then was absurd enough to make apologies, as if sympathy was as common as dirt? Love Me Little, Love Me Long Come, leave off sniveling, you two, and take a lesson in justice—from a beginner: converts are always the hottest, you know. A Woman-Hater All, coughing and sniveling, dip their handkerchiefs into it and rub the moist rag over their hats and coats. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography To commemorate that sniveling tramp and his, fraternal duplicate. The American Claimant Now, Nanny Sherwood!" she scolded herself, "there's not a particle of use of your sniveling. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret But as the boy came to a halt, against a sharp-pointed rock, and sat up, sniveling with pain, the great dog's aspect changed. Further Adventures of Lad What he actually said was to tell a house maid to stop sniveling. A Poor Wise Man I don't know whether I believe what I preach, and I know I have stolen the very sermon over which I have been sniveling. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English And now the sobbing, sniveling little idiot who had kept her waiting all night had stuck her nose into some thing that didn't concern her. The Foolish Virgin "Well, then, both of us are sniveling," said the tutor. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader So, you see, fun may lead to sniveling as well as to laughing. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader |
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