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sneer

[sneer]

verb (used without object)

  1. to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt.

    They sneered at his pretensions.

  2. to speak or write in a manner expressive of derision or scorn.

    Synonyms:


verb (used with object)

  1. to utter or say in a sneering manner.

noun

  1. a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.

  2. a derisive or scornful utterance, especially one more or less covert or insinuative.

    Synonyms: , ,
  3. an act of sneering.

sneer

/ ɪə /

noun

  1. a facial expression of scorn or contempt, typically with the upper lip curled

  2. a scornful or contemptuous remark or utterance

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to assume a facial expression of scorn or contempt

  2. to say or utter (something) in a scornful or contemptuous manner

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sneer1

First recorded in 1545–55; originally, “to snort”; compare Frisian (northern dialect) sneere “scornful remark,” snarl 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sneer1

C16: perhaps from Low Dutch; compare North Frisian sneere contempt
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Synonym Study

See scoff 1.
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Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, screenwriter and activist Lee Kern called her video "sneering mockery".

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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.

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"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.

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“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.

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It’s easy to sneer at Morris’s antics, but beneath the grotesquery is a real hunger.

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