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snivel rights

noun

Etymology

From snivel (“to whine or complain while crying”) + rights. First use appears c. 1962. See cite below.

Definitions

  1. Civil rights.

    • who sit in the background and urge their rather stupid followers to do these illegal acts, for that reason I do not support any of the statements with regard to what I would call the snivel-rights of certain political groups.
    • "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap.
    • The nonviolent campaigns against racial discrimination in the early 1960s only inflamed his disgust for what he called the “snivel rights” movement.

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