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Definition: Sniveling |
SnivelingNoun1. Whining in a tearful manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sniveling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: SnivelingSynonym: snivel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servility | Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sniveling |
| English words defined with "sniveling": Snively. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The only mistake I ever made was to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you Secretary of Defense. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) Act like a man you sniveling twerp. (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart) I'm not a sniveling whiny little cry-Buffy. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "sniveling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schluchzend (sobbing). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | nyavalygó (sniveler, sniveller). (various references) | ||||
Italian | piagnucoloso (plaintive, snivelling, tearful, whimpering), piagnucolio (bleat, snivelling, whimper, whine), frignoso (snivelling), frignio (snivelling). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ivelingsnay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Sniveling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shiveling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: enisling, ensiling, livening, veilings, veinings. | |
-2 letters: insigne, lensing, lignins, linings, livings, seining, sieving, veiling, veining, viseing. | |
-3 letters: ensign, givens, ingles, isling, levins, lignin, linens, lining, linins, livens, living, sileni, single, snivel, venins, vigils, vining, vising. | |
-4 letters: evils, genii, given, gives, glens, ingle, ivies, lenis, levin, liens, linen, lines, lings, linin, linns, liven, lives, nines. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: livingness, novelising, snivelling, unveilings. | |
+3 letters: livingnesses. | |
+4 letters: inveiglements. | |
+5 letters: unavailingness, universalizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 69 76 65 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. .. ...- . .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n i v e l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0069 0076 0065 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538075887178758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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