Definition of "sniveling" []

• Present participle of snivel. (verb)

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• "The old expatriate was querulous, long-winded, not niggard with his ink when he cursed the English and damned the Prussians; and he obtained much gratification in jabbing his quill-bodkin into what he termed the sniveling nobility of the old regime."
• "Распускать сопли (literally, "to let out the snot") is what we call sniveling in English: Оба плакали, распуская сопли, просили друг у друга прощения, клялись в вечной дружбе (They both wept, sniveled, begged each other's forgiveness and vowed eternal friendship)."
• "Our whining, entitled sniveling is repugnant to the majority of the planet's inhabitants, so why don't we just suck it up and get over it?"