How To Use Sneer In A Sentence

I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
Here we may be sneering at the devaluation of the single currency, but in Germany they're laughing all the way to the export markets.
The hipster cops are sneering at the two faux surfers: 'I'm all dialed in to see what happens if the pair of rainbow donks actually hit the briny on their unwaxed legs.' Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku

She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
Hmph. I not only sneer at the ornateness of the furniture, I sneer at the people who purchase such trash, and in fact, it is so distasteful, I regret I must extend that sneer to include the entire nation. Rare Michael Jackson Portrait By Andy Warhol Up For Sale
The great thing is that this voting has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of the song, but gives the Eurovision nations an opportunity to buddy up with their neighbours or sneer at old enemies.
'You? A writer?' she sneered.
The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.
While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India!
We are always ready to sneer at wealthy men who get involved with sport. Times, Sunday Times
She has closed herself off - sneering at the young lovers, ignoring the footboy and the beggar.
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
It's only tosspots who come to London from nowhere places who sneer at our nation's other fine cities.
After all your doubts and jeers and sneers, you may be sure that she is sure. A Plague of Angels
But in the scope of this metaphor, the implication is that euthanizing the whales will somehow make room for "better" (sneer quotes) classes of whales to evolve that aren't disoriented by subchaser pings. Undefined
I pointed in both directions when appropriate, my lips curling slightly in a sneer.
Their anger was a pose, and the pose made a lot of people a lot of money, even as it sneered at the commercialisation of mainstream pop and rock.
When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
How much did you say you earned last year - was it fifteen thousand?" she said with a sneer.
With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet. Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
Old Ebbits looked at me in childlike wonder, while Zilla sneered openly at the absurdity of my question. THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
The attractive part of the vocal delivery is the tone, the snotty sneer with which nearly every line is delivered.
They have real food, you can order a large latte without beeing sneered at, and the pain au chocolat is not the best I have had, but it is in the top three. Live through this and you won't look back
Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.
They honour the dead and they Support Our Troops and they wear red on Fridays and they sneer at those who oppose the war and they imagine that Remembrance Day consecrates that war as well as those who have died, in this conflict and in the ones that have ended. Archive 2009-11-01
But I believe I catch your drift: another contented arrogation, another sneer. The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
Make no mistake, Harris is still sneering at the uncouth accents of his compatriots, except now he calls them consumers instead of hicks and they live in a subdivision instead of a holler.
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
And when that time does come, young twits are going to sneer at you, incredible as that may seem.
Thus it's easier to regain the high ground by laughing or sneering, or complaining about art getting in the way of commuters.
Smart people who appeared sneered and patronised the audience. Times, Sunday Times
“House musician, title searcher, trail blazer,” she sneered, as she selectively read out loud from the employment history on my resume. Being Multi-faceted in a Two-Dimensional Society, part 2, with R. H. Phillips, Author of "Witness to a Crime"
So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world.
Marshal found that a tough resistance awaited him, although the allied commander-in-chief, Bernadotte, moved with the utmost caution, as if he were bent on justifying Napoleon's recent sneer that he would "only make a show" (_piaffer_). The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
The country club set, knocking back martinis and Manhattans and Cosmopolitans, looks down on the rednecks at the noisy beer joint across the county line, and the writers and intellectuals at the local college sneer at both groups for being "alkies" but believe that a trip on the latest psychedelic drug is an intellectual adventure. The O'Reilly Factor
He called the post "sneering" -- which it hardly was Evolution News & Views
Waaa-al I dunno, Kerry seems to have read a few books and done some thinking since graduation, Bush on the other hand scowls petulantly and cannot use the word "dissemble" correctly in a sentence - a challenge that my eleven year old niece would sneer at. The Chimes at Midnight
Those who sneered at the innovation and claimed it would be an expensive flop reckoned without this personable and determined man. Times, Sunday Times
Peter laughed, his voice sounding harsh and ugly, and his mouth twisted into a sardonic sneer.
Three days after the Prime Minister's petulant sneer that only reactionary twits claim education standards have fallen comes pretty devastating evidence that this is indeed the case.
It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too.
I gave a half hearted attempt at an amused sneer and shook my head, reaching for my book again.
Images of Brando in character now are emblems for the era he dominated: Stanley Kowalski with his ripped t-shirt and pent-up rage; Terry Malloy, making a defiant stand against the mob on the waterfront; Johnny the Biker in "The Wild One," sneering at all authority.
He wished he could hate them all at the same time, so his hatred would be dissipated, causing him to become an effete nobody sneering at the majority's intellectual pygmyism. An East Wind Coming
He sneers at her approach and waddles forward to block her passage.
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
The absence of confident sneers, knowing smirks and sceptical raised eyebrows also makes an enormous difference.
It is a bitter opposition to that class of doctrinaires who are inimical to the welfare of the commonwealth; who sneer at it holiest memories, defy its laws, and assault its courts; who wave the red flag of destruction at the whole social, industrial and political organism; and who see naught that is good, save in such policies and measures as may be of disintegrative and revolutionary aspect . The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
The director keeps the camera close to their faces, and the scenes are played out with smiles, winces, sneers, vulgarities, long pauses, shrugs, inane repetitions, dartings, and aversions of the eyes.
I've been waiting for the formula to come to market - i can see the Seal label sneering back at me now ... maybe a Snob/Mastik collabo for non-clinchers? Innovation or Catastrophe? Scratching, Cradling, Sanding, and Beating Your Way to a "Better" Bike
In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Seamus was already out of the car and, once free of it, resumed his cynical sneer.
A staunch Wicklow supporter he has been scarified for hoisting the Dublin colours in Balto, not a sneer at his roots, but his admiration for the capital county.
I am afraid our scientific adviser Professor Summerlee rather sneered at the machine.
A tingling feeling crept over his form, and an arrogant sneer then crept over his face.
But I thought that only a very dim veck would have built his domy upon sand, and a right lot of real sneering droogs and nasty neighbours a veck like that would have, them not telling him how dim he was doing that sort of building. Where's the show?
Now before you sneer and condemn me to 1,000 strokes of the lash, let me tell you about a little experience I had recently.
That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it". In praise of... Simon Gray
What strange power burned in those cold gray eyes that sneered at her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
When the two had been introduced, Miss Davenport concealed a sneer with difficulty, Clarissa could see, and the governess was hard-pressed to stop her cheeks from flushing.
This did not impress many Twitter followers, who detected something of a sneer. Times, Sunday Times
They have long sneered at the US laws on internet gaming, arguing they were unenforce-able.
The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging.
Hannah sneered, interrupting the poetic duologue that was taking place before us.
When a person is disgusted other people can tell exactly what they are feeling from those sneering lips. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
It couldn't make up its mind whether to be intentionally, camply sneery and sniggery or just boldly melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
Though some sneered at him as a time-server and trimmer, it is extraordinary that a man could live in such turbulent times and win such widespread praise.
When Sean was safely out of earshot, he allowed his upper lip to curl into the slightest sneer.
Really, openly sneered, which isn’t easy to do with a serious weapon aimed at you. Thin Air
He's also had to cope with people sneering at his ability to write books at superhuman speed. Times, Sunday Times
I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
He sneered at people who liked pop music.
I don't like that superior, sneering tone of his.
When a person is disgusted other people can tell exactly what they are feeling from those sneering lips. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
What strange power burned in those cold gray eyes that sneered at her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. John of the Woods
Its merciless laugh was like blood bubbling in its tufted throat, an ugly sneer produced in sounds.
Sneering asides about freedom of expression do not sit well with claims to understand what the framers of the American Constitution had in mind given the prominence of the First Amendment.
It was something I'd heard of, and I was prepared to sneer or cringe as two low-brows reduced films to thumbs up or down and was delighted to find a programme which featured unselfconscious intelligent discussion.
Even for an administration that takes perverse pride in sneering at the term "conservation," this latest news is a shocker: President Bush's 2007 budget includes an order to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to sell off as much as 800,000 acres of national lands to generate money for public schools. For Sale: Your Hunting Heritage
Sneer at hot dogs all you want but a well-made wiener is a thing of beauty.
His stunning voice has always had a caustic force behind it, almost as if he's sneering and laughing all at once.
Too often, graphic novels are cast off as nothing more than kid stuff, pronounced so be people who say the word comics with a sneer.
You're feeling pity for a creature that would sneer at the concept if she understood it.
Schumacher is arrogant, triumphalist, sneering and a routine breaker of the rules.
The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing. Irish Blogs
Any girl of beddable age would at once be presumed to be the lowest type of harlot, a foreign devil's harlot and despised as such, sneered at openly, and her value diminished. Noble House
'Is that your best outfit?' he sneered.
You may sneer, but a lot of people like this kind of music.
The "Monthly Review" sneers at me, and asks "if 'Comus' is not _good enough_ for Mr. Lamb?" because I have said no good serious dramas have been written since the death of Charles the First, except "Samson Agonistes"; so because they do not know, or won't remember, that "Comus" was written long before, I am to be set down as an undervaluer of Milton! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
And the Kaiser was unwise to sneer that his uncle Edward VII went yachting with Thomas Lipton, the purveyor of bacon and tea to the urban consumer.
Congratulations !'said Gessler, sneering. " Now tell me why you took a second arrow.
He drew his mouth back into a sneer, revealing his menacing canine eye teeth.
He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
Cue for another collective Washington sneer at Los Angeles.
'Is that your best outfit?' he sneered.
Jests against religion, sneers at the piety of the godly, irreverent and shocking swearing, and a boastful parade of the immoralities they have committed make up the conversation, I fear, of some circles.
To have this quasi-feudal law in the 21 century is an outrage, but what sticks in the gullet is the contempt the sneering Beeboids have for us while they take our money. stanley Jerusalem On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
After all your doubts and jeers and sneers, you may be sure that she is sure. A Plague of Angels
After all, the intellectual loner who sneers at the affairs of lesser men hardly tallies with the man whose membership application for the club was recently blackballed by four members.
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
It's like being called a eunuch or an old maid; one always hears that faint sneer of disdain and condescension mixed with pity.
When his neighbours twitted him with being too lazy to plow and sow, of "mooning" over books, and derisively sneered when they spoke of him as the Harvester of the Woods or the Medicine Man, David Langston smiled and went his way. The Harvester
All part of a Canadian — you need to say it with a nasalized and palatalized sneer — smeer campaign against Us. Williams criticized on Hickey; story goes national
The sneering turns septic all it touches. Times, Sunday Times
I mean if calling someone ageist is a cyril sneer, what is calling Peter Black an 'ignorant fool'? Peter Black steps beyond the pale
She sneered at Tom's musical tastes.
They have real food, you can order a large latte without beeing sneered at, and the pain au chocolat is not the best I have had, but it is in the top three. Live through this and you won't look back
He paused when his eye fell on the chrome scaffolding against the wall, his mouth curling in a derisory sneer. BETTER THAN THIS
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
Twelve guards entered the room, scowls and sneers on their faces.
she sneered her contempt
What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer.
Now, Jonson sneers at the word 'brock' in a way not unfrequent with Shakspere himself, in regard to various words used by Jonson against him. Shakspere and Montaigne
Had he paid no attention at all to the endless rituals of the serious writers and their serious critics -- the formal expulsion ceremonies, the repeated anathemata, the stakes driven over and over through the heart, the vitriolic sneers, the endless, solemn dances on the grave? Writing
When Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, first encountered Greeks on his western boundaries, he sneered at the race of shopkeepers who hung about the agora cheating one another all day. The Greeks' Daring Experiment
That's the social safety net you've been sneering at, oh-so-wittily placing the phrase in shudder-quotes. Archive 2009-02-01
Those who sneered at the innovation and claimed it would be an expensive flop reckoned without this personable and determined man. Times, Sunday Times
He's also had to cope with people sneering at his ability to write books at superhuman speed. Times, Sunday Times
I again persisted in asking just what hour I might expect to be honored with the tickets, I was sneeringly told, a media dia, at noon. It's about (Mexican) time!
We asked their staff to buy the paper and they sneered in my face.
None of your sneery jokes. Times, Sunday Times
He built a carriage with a convertible top that ‘was smiled at by his friends and sneered at by his enemies,’ but, as she noted, landaus were a common sight on American roads not long after his death.
I was instantly flanked by two guards with a countenance of half sneers, half smiles on their faces.
This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs. The Way Home
He sneers at the arguments against it: self-sufficiency and the tired old cultural card.
You may sneer, but a lot of people like this kind of music.
The organisation is eager to promote British fare in the face of some sneering from international critics who regard British food as solid but unimpressive. Times, Sunday Times
His step-mother accused him of loitering, of scrimshanking, of scornfully dishing up half-plates of food - more than he had earned, she sneered.
James sneered at my old bicycle. He has a new one.
Their efforts will deserve credit, not sneering from the sidelines.
Her two friends standing either side of the peroxide blonde, whose ample bosom was spilling out of her tight top, sneered at me.
He was someone else entirely; he sneered at me, belittled me and found every excuse to tear apart anything I liked.
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
What strange power burned in those cold gray eyes that sneered at her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Twelve guards entered the room, scowls and sneers on their faces.
No one wants to be described as gutless or sneered at for being wet. Times, Sunday Times
He's trying to do away with the cynical sneer and make a genuine film with heartfelt emotion.
In this section of the book we also have repeated evidence that Hewitt is all too often ready with a quick sneer.
While Robert Shaw's Britisher sneers at all things NYC, Matthau's cragged face and forlorn voice implicitly champion NYC values.
In recent weeks, he has sneered and jeered and delighted in telling pro-hunting country people to submit to the will of the townies in banning the hunt and sentencing tens of thousands of hounds to death.
When he finally made it to the stage to alternately flip his hair and continue sneering, he began taunting the crowd and encouraging them to pump their fists - then the sound promptly gave out.
Our teetotaler owner - captain was laughed at, and sneered at, by all of us because of his teetotalism. Chapter 16
The attractive part of the vocal delivery is the tone, the snotty sneer with which nearly every line is delivered.
Hairy-chested poseur and Sarkozy foreign-policy adviser Bernard-Henri Levy sneeringly referred to "the chambermaid," brayed about DSK's high standing, and called him "a friend to women. A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises
Publisher Eileen Tabios accompanies her poet as graphic alter ego, supplies drawings and indeed handwrites his text, a duo then stepping onto their small stage in their shared regalia to participate in what I might describe unsneeringly as an intense art dealership. Archive 2007-09-01
A faint sneer of satisfaction crossed her face.
Mason quashed the proposal, remarking truly enough that there was too much bad blood as it was between father and son; while Tammas proposed with a sneer that the smith should be his own agent in the matter. Bob, Son of Battle
The title is a reference to the five boroughs of their home city, whose iconic, bustling streets and block-corner beatbox sounds permeate almost every note, sample and sneering lyric of their back catalogue.
‘As free holidays go, I think they pulled off a cracker,’ sneers Braithwaite.
If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become. Steven Weber: Step Outside
Ward, keeping the gun pointing her way, sneered at her in a way that made the soul of Billy Louise crimple. The Ranch at the Wolverine
Newsnight won't be the same without that wonderful, sneering camel face. The Sun
‘You wanted to see a real-life cryptid, and you have,’ she replies, a slight sneer in her voice.
They should state clearly and concisely, without a sneery pout, that it's just another contractual obligation, among many, that must be fulfilled.
Stassy couldn't find the words to get her point across, so she let her sneer of revulsion and displeasure do the talking for her.
She sneered through a crooked grin. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven.
She explains, still gracious though with a slight sneer to her smiling nature this time.
The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter.
Rather than gobbing on the campfire, Lydon has been sharing his recipe for watercress soup; the closest he got to his trademark sneer was when he was coated in molasses and birdseed and sent out to battle a flock of ostriches.
Sneers, deliberate and calculated to provoke a response that would betray his position.
His voice was crisp and business-like, as usual, when he wasn't sneering.
Now is a time for cynics to drop their superior sneers, swap their sarcasm for a sleigh and listen to the Santa in their soul.
With last year's Happy People, former Miles Davis saxophonist Kenny Garrett mixed tough improvising and striking pop-jazz themes so well that even the most sneering fundamentalist jazzers thought twice about complaining.
But he also sneered at him and those cookery programmes and dog adverts he did. Times, Sunday Times
The Senator virtually emptied his pockets to provide that, and a trousseau at which neither Andrew McClintock nor anyone else could sneer. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
At no moment does he pass up the chance of a cheap sneer or a jeer.
A newspaper with a sworn circulation of half a million published an original and spontaneous poem by Helen Della Delmar, in which she gibed and sneered at Brissenden. Chapter 41
I accept the sneer with pleasure, as I would an honorary degree in roach control from the University of … well, Ockham. April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
He is a sneering blond man, with close-cropped hair, and a muscular build.
He was determined to prove wrong the prison governors who, he says, sneered he could not last a year on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice is particularly attractive: fluted and clear, kinder than the hard-edged Sloane of caricature and, most importantly, never sneering.
Her smile is now more sneer than leer, which is how I know she respects me somewhat. Fall On Your Knees
But he didn't and his tone was too sneery. Times, Sunday Times
But because of our sniggers and our sneers, we overlooked two rather surprising corollaries to this glamour business.
You had to hear the sneer in his voice for that, and the ludicrous interruptions.
I don't care about the sneery face, that's part of the attitude. The Sun
We passed through Chang-kia-wan again, in a solid phalanx with the Sikh sowars around us, thrusting by main force through streets choked with jingal-men and Tiger soldiers who sneered and spat but kept their distance from those razor-sharp lance-heads. Flashman and the Dragon
Witness the madcap antics of "The 39 Steps," the Hitchcock sendup still raking in laughs off-Broadway, or the caustic sneer of "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's comic slap at deal making in Hollywood. 'Brief Encounter': Mad about its style
I'd rather have a so-so burger in a dive with a friendly waitress than a great meal in a place where the staff sneered at me and never refilled my drink.
Her lips puckered for a moment before breaking into a sneer.
As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
There is no mileage in sneering at what people are reading. Stop being snobby about reading
Jack kind of sneered at the punk like he wheeled out from under a rock. MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK
And so I thought that the massive sneer with which his remarks were greeted was unjustified.
At any time he was ready with a sneer for what he called the cowpuncher's "grandstanding. Steve Yeager
Where they "bantered," cajoled, and sneered, arousing a very mild irritation, Swift's scornful invective, and biting satire silenced into fear the enemies of the Queen's chosen ministers. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
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.
He beat you, did he?" sneered "Mad Alek," aroused to fury again. The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur
‘Maybe to look at their groundlings below and laugh,’ the woman exclaimed with a sneer.
The historical dramatist had worse to fear than the sneers of the literati.
The God of the Gaps sneer is invoked to imply the inexorability of materialism as a complete explanation in natural science. 2009 January - Telic Thoughts
Here, in general, it's been a case of it's the economy, sneery. Times, Sunday Times
Publishing experts sneered at the results. Times, Sunday Times

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