A medic will usually carry a small amount of what are referred to as snivel or sick call meds.
We snivel, but we do nothing.
When they come up against a snag, they come here snivelling for subsidies, or asking to be exempt from some obligation they ought not to resent bearing.
It is, in truth, a miserable, snivelling little amendment that has no valid reason behind it.
Snivelling comments about it will get us nowhere.
At this late hour we should be spared such petty, snivelling interventions.
If he did that he would be told promptly and probably profanely to stop snivelling and do some work.
Their questioning reduced her to tears at one stage and an inspector told her to stop snivelling.
