(v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
(v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
(v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crisp, ball-by-ball update of scores, and none of this snivelling."
(2) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(3) True, a band shouldn't be judged by its name, but they sound like Fleetwood Mac (or, by their own admission, Jethro Tull); whereas with the Nipple Erectors, Slaughter & the Dogs or the Snivelling Shits, you tended to know what to expect.
(4) When discriminators are challenged they produce snivelling fudges and sideswipes.
(5) First the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk , and now the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, have betrayed both the reef and the trust of the Australian people by snivelling across the seas, pledging allegiance to the Carmichael coalmine.
(6) A 55-year-old man in Okagaki Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, pulled a nasal leech from his nostril in July 1987, after suffering from nosebleed, copious running snivels as well as unpleasant foreign body sensation in the nasal cavity.
(7) They snivel and lie and duck questions on torture - on torture, for Christ's sake - while demanding we respect their authority.
(8) It aims at being a despairing cry, but achieves only the stature of a self-pitying snivel."
(9) "Viktor Korchnoi is quite an exponent, saying (if I report it correctly) 'stop squirming in your chair you snivelling little worm' to Anatoly Karpov during their 1978 world championship match.
Swivel
Definition:
(a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
(a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.
(v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
(5) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
(6) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
(7) That's slightly different from what Feldman said earlier this year after the Times and the Telegraph reported that a senior figure had said that Conservative associations "are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
(8) These animals were tethered for periods of 14-70 h during which brain perfusates and peripheral blood samples were collected at 10- to 30-min intervals through the tether-swivel assembly.
(9) The asymmetrical swivel face-bow as described above is advisable to use because eccentric bendings and less forces at the outer-bows will decrease, stop or even reverse the asymmetrical effect.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
(11) We discuss a model in which supercoiling changes are produced by differential swiveling activities on the opposite sides of a transcriptional flow during transcriptional modulation.
(12) It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.
(13) Nigel Farage went down in the second round, gasping for air, eyes swivelling.
(14) It comes as a shock then to discover that in one crucial and fundamental area of social care the SNP resembles the "swivel-eyed loons" of the Tory shires.
(15) Osborne called it “fantastic” on 5 July, only to clash with Whittingdale who called the show “debatable” on 14 July, but who then, no doubt under pressure from his chancellor, swivelled, calling it “admirable” by 19 July.
(16) A new design of swivel walker for the severely disabled is described which has advantages over previous types.
(17) The key to this system is a swiveling guide tube held in a small, skull-mounted base by a low-melting-point metal alloy.
(18) Alejandro Faurlin fizzed a low shot wide after swivelling near the penalty spot.
(19) The overall system consisted of a harness and jacket, an umbilical and back pack, a combined electrical and fluid transmission swivel and a monitoring implant and catheters.
(20) The use of metabolism cage and swivel joint-equipped infusion system allows also continuous infusion of fluids in freely-moving animals.