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sneer
[sneer]
verb (used without object)
to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt.
They sneered at his pretensions.
to speak or write in a manner expressive of derision or scorn.
Synonyms:
verb (used with object)
to utter or say in a sneering manner.
noun
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
a derisive or scornful utterance, especially one more or less covert or insinuative.
Synonyms: , ,an act of sneering.
sneer
/ ɪə /
noun
a facial expression of scorn or contempt, typically with the upper lip curled
a scornful or contemptuous remark or utterance
verb
(intr) to assume a facial expression of scorn or contempt
to say or utter (something) in a scornful or contemptuous manner
Other 51Թ Forms
- sneerer noun
- sneerful adjective
- sneeringly adverb
- sneerless adjective
- subsneer noun
- unsneering adjective
- unsneeringly adverb
- ˈԱԲ adverb
- ˈԱԲ adjective
- ˈԱڳܱ adjective
- ˈԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sneer1
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Example Sentences
Meanwhile, screenwriter and activist Lee Kern called her video "sneering mockery".
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., lies all day about everything, but he was probably telling the truth when he sneered that "the EV mandate is very important to" Musk.
"I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth," she sneered while walking in a cemetery.
“I ain’t an angel, you ain’t heaven-sent,” he sneers in “I Had Some Help,” a collaboration with a newly countryfied Post Malone.
It’s easy to sneer at Morris’s antics, but beneath the grotesquery is a real hunger.
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