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Sneering   /snˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sneer  v. t.  
1.
To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person. ""A ship of fools," he sneered."
2.
To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers. "Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame."


Sneer  v. i.  (past & past part. sneered; pres. part. sneering)  
1.
To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
2.
To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. "I could be content to be a little sneared at."
3.
To show mirth awkwardly. (R.)
Synonyms: To scoff; gibe; jeer. Sneer, Scoff, Jeer. The verb to sneer implies to cast contempt indirectly or by covert expressions. To jeer is stronger, and denotes the use of several sarcastic reflections. To scoff is stronger still, implying the use of insolent mockery and derision. "And sneers as learnedly as they, Like females o'er their morning tea." "Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears." "The fop, with learning at defiance, Scoffs at the pedant and science."





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"Sneering" Quotes from Famous Books



... drew his brows together with an attempt at pious frowning and indignation; but there was a cold, sneering smile now turned upon him, and it changed the frown to anxiety, and made his lips twitch, and the food he had eaten ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... hatchway, followed sharply by Jim's revolver, but at the foot of the ladder he turned his contemptuous, sneering face ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... one to drive with or talk with, no one to visit or play cards with—to go to the theatre and the opera and have no one to speak to! Worse than that, to be stared at and smiled at! To live in this huge palace, and know that all the horde of servants, underneath their cringing deference, were sneering at you! To face that—to live in the presence of it day after day! And then, outside of your home, the ever widening circles of ridicule and contempt—Society, with all its hangers-on and parasites, ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... dissipation he allowed himself—-she had thought the butler supercilious, and the maid who came to help her off with her wraps, snippy. She had suspected the woman of turning her little coat inside out after it was confided to her care, and sneering ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... and felt the ground rise up and collide with his shoulder blades. He got up and sat on the steps of the store shivering from outraged nerves, hugging his knees and sneering. Taylor lifted out a case of tobacco and wrenched off its top. Six cigarettes began to glow, bringing peace ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry


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