(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.
Whimper
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
(v. t.) To utter in alow, whining tone.
(n.) A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
(2) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(3) On day four you ask for the salad as a main and then, when they refuse, order the duck again with a whimper.
(4) If they had come out fighting, we could have fought back; coming out crawling, whimpering at their own inadequacy, all we can do is accept that they've done their best.
(5) The catch-22 in this ambition, however, was that nothing serious was likely to go wrong so long as wets such as Walker, James Prior, Francis Pym and Ian Gilmour confined their opposition to her "revolution" to an occasional whimper of dissent.
(6) The systematic hacking of social security from this country's most vulnerable has been done with barely a whimper of remorse from the most powerful.
(7) Elsewhere, the corpses are swapped for tragedy and the Muttley chuckles turn to whimpers.
(8) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(9) A young title called Bang, from the makers of Classic Rock, closed without a whimper.
(10) He was rarely seen on the touchline as Fulham slipped towards their inevitable conclusion with barely a whimper.
(11) Homeless and dying, she roams the neighbourhood, whimpering and laughing.
(12) She was later to tell police that it was a cold morning and the "abnormally thin" child was whimpering.
(13) You'll be too busy whimpering and chewing on your fist.
(14) This cycle is broken when a Looper called Joe (played by Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt) comes face-to-face with a target who won't just kneel there, whimper and die – himself.
(15) Though this is not good news, the euro may then actually end: not with a bang, but a whimper.
(16) At half-time against Newcastle he implored the players not to end their outstanding season "with a whimper".
(17) All of this has been done without even a whimper from the Liberal Democrats, who have lost any remaining vestige of credibility on civil liberties.
(18) The annoying thing about political storms like this is that real people are affected, meaning that you can't have too much sport without pausing to remember the whimpering unfortunates who have been on hold to HMPO, assured sincerely and repeatedly of the importance of their call, since last Tuesday.
(19) Finally, horribly, whimperingly, his victim said: "I don't know."
(20) The results suggested that repetitive hand and finger movements, stereotypic manipulation of objects, and making a face(s) mainly occur within arousal situations whereas eye poking, whimpering, and sucking thumbs or fingers especially are linked to monotony.