Definitions

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  • adjective having a runny nose
  • adjective pitiful; whining

Etymologies

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snivel +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Geez, Denyse, but you're a snivelly little turd, aren't you?

    Archive 2008-03-01 CC 2008

  • It was about seeing whether Canada's perpetually snivelly and whiny wankers can, if given the chance, actually engage in a discussion intellectually.

    Archive 2008-06-01 CC 2008

  • It was about seeing whether Canada's perpetually snivelly and whiny wankers can, if given the chance, actually engage in a discussion intellectually.

    And the great debate is on ... CC 2008

  • Not really a bad-ass per se, but definitely makes your skin crawl in that snivelly, pale-faced, sweaty-browed kinda way just like I make most of my dates feel!

    YesButNoButYes: Indy's 2nd Banana 2008

  • I am not the Mark that posted the snivelly comment up above.

    Blog some more David 2006

  • Geez, Denyse, but you're a snivelly little turd, a...

    Archive 2008-03-01 CC 2008

  • By the way, Sandy, given that KEvron blew a KEvron-sized hole in your snivelly whining, a top-level blog post correction by you would seem to be in order.

    Yes, that's a smoking gun all right, Sandy. CC 2008

  • La Touche, who was preached about in France as the man that was to extinguish me, and even in the scurvy English newspapers, but never dared to show his snivelly countenance outside of the inner buoys, is dead of his debosheries, for which I am deeply grieved, as I fully intended to send him to the devil.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Peace was proclaimed, and peace was reigning; and the proper British feeling of contempt for snivelly

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • She bounces up and down in her seat like a snivelly little pekingese dog all hopped up on rage and goofballs, gripping the steering wheel with her hooker red talons, smacking her gum and screaming at other vehicles, mostly without cause.

    weeme Diary Entry weeme 2003

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