sniveling
Crying while complaining
Sniveling combines weak crying with runny-nosed whimpering—the kind of pathetic weeping that produces snot.
More often, it's contemptuous: a sniveling coward, a sniveling wretch.
The word suggests someone contemptibly weak, complaining, or self-pitying rather than someone actually crying.
Stop your sniveling and deal with it.
Morally worthless, beneath regard
- patheticArousing scornful pity
- cravenContemptibly lacking nerve
- cowardlyWithout bravery or nerve
- spinelessLacking courage or resolve
groveling · obsequious · fawning · servile · toadying · bootlicking · sycophantic · abject
Crying weakly, softly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- blubberingCrying noisily and uncontrollably
- snifflingRepeated nasal inhalation
- weepingShedding tears audibly
tearful · mewling · whingeing · plaintive · snuffling · teary · lachrymose · wailing
despicable
Morally worthless, beneath regard
spineless · groveling · obsequious · fawning · servile · toadying · bootlicking · sycophantic · abject · cringing
whimpering
Crying weakly, softly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- blubberingCrying noisily and uncontrollably
- snifflingRepeated nasal inhalation
weeping · tearful · mewling · whingeing · plaintive · snuffling · teary · lachrymose · wailing · bawling
grousing
Habitual petty complaining
- grumblingMuttering in discontent
- moaningProlonged sound of distress
- gripingVoicing persistent complaints
fussing · bleating · querulous · bellyaching · kvetching · carping · petulant · peevish · sulking · bemoaning
mucus
Protective bodily secretion
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- snifflingRepeated nasal inhalation
- snufflingNoisy nasal breathing
runny · phlegm · catarrh · snotty · stuffed-up · drippy · allergies · sinusitis · postnasal · snorting
- cryingcry, crying, tears, sob, sobbing
- gripingcomplaining, grumbling, griping, grousing, kvetching
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- sycophantssycophant, sycophants, toady, toadies, bootlicker
- reactionsreaction, response, gasp, wince, flinch
- mopingbrooding, sulking, wallowing, pouting, sighing