Sneered

Word SNEERED
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /snɪə̯d/

Definitions and meanings of "Sneered"

What do we mean by sneered?

To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn

To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.

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The word "sneered" in example sentences

"You were like all the rest, young fellow," Martin sneered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

        Jack kind of sneered at the punk like he wheeled out from under a rock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jack kind of sneered at the punk like he wheeled out from under a rock. ❋ Dennis Hiatt (2009)

` ` I remember going to pee wee and bantam tournaments and people kind of sneered and said, 'Aw, California kids can't play hockey.' ❋ Unknown (2006)

"He beat you, did he?" sneered "Mad Alek," aroused to fury again. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Really, openly sneered, which isn’t easy to do with a serious weapon aimed at you. ❋ Rachel Caine (2007)

If she does, her character has undergone an even greater change, than any she has yet experienced in the course of all her revolutions. lord Orford is believed by his critic to have "sneered" at every body. sneering was not his way of showing dislike. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

Rebecca also alleged that Kriel's father, Hermanus, had "sneered" while his son was being sentenced. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The great tragedy of Reconstruction, according to DuBois, was that so many whites turned down the gift, “sneered” at black culture and mocked it, and chose to consider it inferior. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

They sneered at it—those white Southerners who heard it and never understood. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

"Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY / Artres" Instead, he says, life in old age "is a desperate struggle not to be laughed at, sneered at, or looked down upon." ❋ Henry Allen (2011)

(Makamuk sneered.) "I want one hundred pounds of dried fish." ❋ Unknown (2010)

We talked of art, and books, and poetry; and the Chauffeur listened and grinned and sneered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You're thinkin 'the drawin'll not be fair," the latter sneered to O'Brien. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"A man would beat me with a stick and make me hear," she sneered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, Matthew sneered earlier today about the unimportance of the Secretary of Commerce. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The days of St. Patrick and the snakes returned," sneered one upstate New York newspaper. ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2011)

These other activities are, of course, not to be sneered at. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"This is not a change," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, had sneered in response. ❋ Sohrab Ahmari (2012)

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