sneered in English

verb

1

smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

she had sneered at their bad taste

synonyms: smirk, curl one's lip, smile disparagingly, smile contemptuously, smile cruelly, scoff at, scorn, disdain, mock, jeer at, hold in contempt, ridicule, deride, insult, slight, slur

verb

• smirk, curl one's lip, smile disparagingly, smile contemptuously, smile cruelly
• scoff at, scorn, disdain, mock, jeer at, hold in contempt, ridicule, deride, insult, slight, slur

Use "sneered" in a sentence

1. They sneered at her, baring their tiny incisors.

2. "Make it quick, Branchling!" Another one sneered.

3. 22 He sneered at people who liked pop music.

4. Crucified Buttonbur cyclospondylous frictionlessly steel-green parfield grooverhead sneered

5. The fickle and lascivious woman was sneered at by people.

6. However sneered the girl, " You are ingratiate me! What you mean? "

7. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at.

8. Was my wife comforted before her execution while this collaborator and his pirate masters sneered?

9. 23 He was so cynical that he sneered at everything that made life worth living.

10. The verses were copied out , handed about , sneered at, admired, passed from coterie to coterie.

11. Hillary Clinton sneered at a llama that some one brought to a rally in Pennsylvania.

12. “He sneered at him in contempt,” we read, “because he was just a ruddy and handsome boy.”

13. Do all the lords and ladies simper and bow, the ones who sneered at you for years?

14. The hip rediscovered black biker jackets and postured and sneered in them and wore them to class.

15. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away.

16. For years physiognomy - the idea that a person's face is a reflection of his character - was sneered at.

17. 42 When the Phi·lisʹtine looked and saw David, he sneered at him in contempt because he was just a ruddy and handsome boy.

18. At three a.m. she was Jay-in-love-with-Lucy, writing bad poetry or self-indulgent screeds of what daylight sneered at as a journal.

19. "When you're too dumb to play anything," the professor conducting us sneered, "they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back and call you a percussionist.

20. ‘He was someone else entirely; he sneered at me, Belittled me and found every excuse to tear apart anything I liked.’ ‘Worse, mom constantly ridiculed Betty, belittling her long nose and unkempt manner of dress.’ ‘His wife, Lori, belittles his obsession and ridicules his dreams.’