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sniveling (root: snivel)
THESAURUS
sniveling
Tartuffian, Tartuffish, abject, affected, backscratching, bawling, beggarly, blubbering, bootlicking, canting, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, cry, crying, dissolved in tears, false, fawning, fit of crying, flattering, flood of tears, footlicking, good cry, goody, goody-goody, greet, groveling, hangdog, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, in tears, ingratiating, insincere, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, mealymouthed, melting mood, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, overflowing eyes, parasitic, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, prostrate, ready to cry, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, sobbing, sponging, sycophantic, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffusedROGET THESAURUS
sniveling
Servility
N servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, 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, hat in hand, cap in hand.For further exploring for "sniveling" in Webster Dictionary Online