Snivelling
['snivliŋ]
Definition
(-) of Snivel
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Examples
- What's set you a snivelling now? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Ye know that, said Tom; I don't pretend none of your snivelling ways, but I won't lie in my 'counts with the devil himself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Don't stand snivelling there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What do you come snivelling here for? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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