It is no longer the time for pity or hypocritical snivelling.

Stop your snivelling and tell me which of these damned dials is the gas-gauge!"

Snivelling, she circled the trailer until she found a long two-by-four.

Don't waste time," said the headmistress, "and for goodness sake stop that snivelling.

"At least your worthless husband won't be siring any more girls, to eat out my substance and shame me with their snivelling."

Stop that ridiculous snivelling at once!

Oh, Miranda, for God's sake, stop that snivelling.

Berendina's sobs gave way to an unhappy snivelling and Octavia hugged her close.

Crisp, ball-by-ball update of scores, and none of this snivelling."

Snivelling is for jerks.

"Stop that snivelling," Chauvelin broke in impatiently.

There was no snivelling or attempt to run away when the squires heard this command, but without grumbling or complaint they execute what he commands.

You know that snivelling, dim-witted, recent graduate who sits two seats away from you and gets his tie stuck in the photocopier?

"Snivelling again."

I put the fear of fire on him, and wrung the true story out of him, bit by bit, together with much snivelling and snarling.

Her constant snivelling had driven him to tear into his stash of brandy far sooner than normal, and he was ready to bite somebodies head off.

You're jealous ... jealous as they make 'em, and of that snivelling, praying wretch.

Clegg's a snivelling, power-hungry Judas.

Khalid, holding him by the ear, holding a knife at his throat, brings the immigrant snivelling and whimpering to the takht.

I hope the AV referendum isn't lost only because Clegg's a snivelling, power-hungry Judas.

And you can just tear up that letter of recommendation I wrote for your snivelling, little son for Acquisition University because I'll disavow all knowledge of its existence!"

He knew he was about to enter the national consciousness as a patsy, a pathetic loser, coerced and abused into making a snivelling, never-to-be-forgotten, cowardly confession on live TV.

He adds, "She was intelligent, beautiful and young - and so, of course, Lisa had to lie down and let men walk all over her [...] a snivelling, suicidal wreck."

She added: "Until his snivelling, villainous elder sister, Morag, turned up to wreak havoc, the genial patriarch of Summer Bay, Alf Stewart, was doing very well."

He said nothing, but let her cry, and presently when her snivelling gave way to heaving sobs he took one arm from her and offered her a beautifully laundered handkerchief.

"Great Sniveling Scott!

I stood framed in its center as Sheila took plenty of snaps of the Sniveling Sissy she had created.

Characters' names wryly point to their created status, as in Quirke, the eccentric caretaker, and Sniveling, Cleave's understudy.

He had called Neil a damned snivelling apothecary, Miss Mates remembered, but she had never used, or repeated, such language.

Pullo accompanies Caesar to Egypt, where he and Vorenus are ordered to find Cleopatra, held captive by her snivelling baby brother Ptolemy, and bring her to Caesar in Alexandria.

When he starts his new job on Nov 7, he is expected to encourage Ms Gillard to take a more aggressive and adversarial role, and has already praised the prime minister for calling Tony Abbott, the leader of the opposition, a "snivelling grub" in parliament.

Settle in with a piña colada ($6.50) under the "No Sniveling" sign and groove with the zydeco, rockabilly and reggae.

John has some trouble absorbing the knowledge that this string of insults is the man's name; meeting A Sniveling Little Rat-Faced's wife, Dreary Fat Boring Old Git (John Cleese), doesn't help.

If you want to snivel, do it in your own time.

Yet here I was, snivelling on my hands and knees.

She played the tune again, snivelling like a small girl.

The boy's eyes opened wider and he began to snivel.

Either tell me the truth about what's happened to you or stop sniveling."

"But I may change my mind if you do not leave off that whining and sniveling."

"It was your duty to die out there, not come sniveling to the Americans."

And we don't have time to stand around while you snivel about learning to keep your man happy.

And to stop snivelling, and to get a move on.

You can see how Tessa might strike her as sniveling.

"I will not speak to any of you sniveling weaklings!"

Is that how you want me to remember you, snivelling like a girl?

All along the Avenue he'd been making just a quiet sort of snivelling noise.

"We're all doing what we have to do, and sniveling about it won't change a thing."

Frank cut himself on an old wicket and began to snivel.

The little animal brain inside the back of my skull was snivelling about the risk.

I said, "Look at what you've done, you sniveling crazy old man."

She was sniveling for mercy when last I saw her, crying to be killed and put out of pain.

What was prayer but a whining, sniveling attempt to control.

It is not worth the while to snivel about it.

"Go find us something, instead of sitting there sniveling."

Before Buddy hit the floor on all fours, he was sniveling like a baby.

Who wants a mopey, sniveling Hamlet on a close summer night?

Now stop sniveling and look at the good side."