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sniveling

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noun

sniveling

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verb

variants or snivelling
present participle of snivel

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sniveling
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • As seen and heard this week at the SEC spring meetings, the whining over that has not ceased.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • That’s okay, no whining (hopefully the cheap shots by Leafs silence the Stolarz criers at least).
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • As school years around the country wind down, many students have been paying tribute to their own Miss Honey-esque teachers on TikTok, using the voiceover and the sentimental music that goes with it to introduce educators who made a difference in their lives each year.
    Kate Hogan, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • One user posted a sentimental goodbye to their standard matcha latte cream top order at Maru.
    Lauren Ng, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, jailed and banned frequently, has never allowed his work to get mawkish.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • If that line of reasoning is too mawkish and bleeding-heart for your taste, Worsley makes a more pragmatic argument for a generous, welcoming immigration policy, one unsentimentally rooted in cold dollars and cents.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • He’s also invested his protagonist with a self-deprecating sense of humor that keeps his pessimism from veering into maudlin territory.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • An almost but not quite maudlin contemplation of the inevitability of death.
    Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Sniveling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniveling. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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