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- noun Plural form of
sniveller .
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Examples
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For once the snivellers are the Republicans, playing against type.
Hullabaloo 2006
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For once the snivellers are the Republicans, playing against type.
Hullabaloo 2005
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What snivellers, what dotards, when they suffer themselves to be run away with by it! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The snivellers made more noise than the others, and uttered louder screams of laughter; and the nearest relatives and best friends were still more riotous.
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Both are equally unwilling and incompetent, both, despite the prating of civil service snobs and snivellers are dominated by spoils, and the managers of both regard a campaign not as a battle for the betterment of America but as a battle for boodle.
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Love to all you poor past snivellers from an expectant sniveller.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Love to all you poor past snivellers from an expectant sniveller.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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Because only cowards and snivellers cry, and my Father is the bravest man in the world.
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But he would not go in head first, the proper way, and dig with his hands as we had done, and though Oswald was angry at the time, for he hates snivellers, yet afterwards he owned that perhaps it was just as well.
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The snivellers made more noise than the others, and uttered louder screams of laughter; and the nearest relatives and best friends were still more riotous.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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