How To Use Sneering In A Sentence

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
While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
She has closed herself off - sneering at the young lovers, ignoring the footboy and the beggar.

He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.
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.
Thus it's easier to regain the high ground by laughing or sneering, or complaining about art getting in the way of commuters.
He called the post "sneering" -- which it hardly was Evolution News & Views
It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too.
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
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
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
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?
The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging.
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
He's also had to cope with people sneering at his ability to write books at superhuman speed. Times, Sunday Times
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
He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. John of the Woods
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.
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
His stunning voice has always had a caustic force behind it, almost as if he's sneering and laughing all at once.
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
Congratulations !'said Gessler, sneering. " Now tell me why you took a second arrow.
He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
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...
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
The sneering turns septic all it touches. Times, Sunday Times
That's the social safety net you've been sneering at, oh-so-wittily placing the phrase in shudder-quotes. Archive 2009-02-01
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!
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
Their efforts will deserve credit, not sneering from the sidelines.
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.
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
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.
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
Newsnight won't be the same without that wonderful, sneering camel face. The Sun
It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven.
His voice was crisp and business-like, as usual, when he wasn't sneering.
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.
He is a sneering blond man, with close-cropped hair, and a muscular build.
Her voice is particularly attractive: fluted and clear, kinder than the hard-edged Sloane of caricature and, most importantly, never sneering.
As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
There is no mileage in sneering at what people are reading. Stop being snobby about reading
I suspect that it's sneering anyone who'd consider watching it, and I don't think programme makers should gob on the hand that feeds them.
Newsnight won't be the same without that wonderful, sneering camel face. The Sun
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
Both treat honest hard-working taxpayers with sneering contempt. The Sun
He had his arms folded and was sneering like a petulant brat.
The ancient statue overlooking the granite basin depicts a supine, sneering wanderoo but the Romans, because of its ugliness, compared it to a monkey or, more exactly, a baboon.
Far from sneering at our obsolete goods, they'd be raving about all our fabulous antiques.
He captures each unique expression, from the gaptoothed gawp through the sneering cruelty to the wearied resignation. Times, Sunday Times
A loud sneering sound interrupted proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
They used to stare over steaming scrums for 80 minutes; gnarling, sneering and baring their gumshields to the world.
I suppose the tendency is to feel that we're sneering at some valuable archaeologic work, and that Mr. Holder did make a veritable identification. The Book of the Damned
Every one of the luscious ladies had the twisted features of a bearded, demonic, wildly sneering Richard D. James; remember?
She spent most of the time sneering down her nose at people.
Leavers would say it is brave, antielitist patriots v the rootless, metropolitan, sneering rich. Times, Sunday Times
I wonder if the designers of that had any clue that pre-Stones, Jagger bit off the tip of his tongue playing basketball, giving that certain sneering edge to his voice. More synergy
`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly
There are no idiot dads acting like bumbling lunkheads in front of their sneering, wisecracking wives and children.
He was contemptuous and sneering in pointing out that we were in the wrong carriage.
They seem to stand for all I think is wrong with writing about literature, arbitrary disputes laced with hysteria, the creation of pointless ghettos, self-righteous sneering thinly disguised as intellectual superiority, tantrums about issues so unimportant in the global scale of things that I start to wonder myself about the point of what we do. The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
The jump-off to 2001 and beyond, it's attitude sneering and bland, with a lah-de-dah shrug at the blood on the ground spilled by those who don't make it. Dry Rot
Instead of copping a diva attitude and sneering at what people are doing with his hit single, Astley is shrugging and saying Sure, why the hell not? TeeMorris.com » 2008 » November
Well, more sneering and begrudgery at Susans fantastic performance. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
A 1995 mugshot showed his sneering arrogance towards justice as he grinned cockily. The Sun
The spiritualists called down thunder upon the head of the poet, whom they depicted as a vulgar and ribald lampooner who had not only committed the profanity of sneering at the mysteries of a higher state of life, but the more unpardonable profanity of sneering at the convictions of his own wife. Robert Browning
The attacks were generally very personal and adopted a sneering tone towards particular individuals.
Both treat honest hard-working taxpayers with sneering contempt. The Sun
There was the sneering velvety croon, power guitar chords and sharp melodies which seemed destined for success at home, in the United States and beyond.
Far better that he languishes forgotten, which would punish him, rather than give him attention by sneering at him.
It would normally be at this point that I would intervene with some suitably shallow, sneering, right-of-centre barb about how the aconite patch could do with a good carpeting of agent orange, but I will refrain and enjoin with diplo and p-w in a most heartful way, urging you to keep it up, in your most excellent Women's Realm way. Aconite Acolyte
We have seen him sneering and leering as he made his way round a drawing-room at an evening party, and bowing like a French perruquier to some absurd fool of a foreigner; and we have seen him, a minute after, holding up his head and cocking his chin in defiance, if an English voice approached. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
“And your shirt,” she uttered in the same soft voice, even though her actions and sneering expression contradicted her tone. Pure Paradise
As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
During Celebrity Big Brother Jo has changed from a mardy old sourballs to a mardy old sourballs with a nifty side-career as a sneering racist sidekick. Big Brother Betting Odds: Jade Goody? Really?
_Dip and lift, dip and lift_, till sky and earth and river were blotted out, and consciousness dwindled to a thin line, -- a streak of foam, fringed on the one hand with sneering rock, on the other with snarling water. A Daughter of the Snows
I have a faint suspicion that he has some odd blood coursing through his veins, at any rate it manifests itself every time, he stands up, dressed in the most outlandish demode clothes and gives a typical sneering utterance. British Blogs
He could be, and often was, called egotistical, self-centred, domineering and sneering; but at least one knew that the total effect was there because he meant it: he found it temperamentally impossible to be a creep. The Guardian World News
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. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
Gwydra turned a scornful gaze toward Carega, brayed a sneering laugh, then fingered the topaz at her throat and vanished back into the castle. GLASS HOUSES • by TW Williams
What projects would they confect after rambling about the place where outbreaks of three infectious diseases for instance, the West Nile virus in 1999 were alleged to have started; where wild animals are killed on sight but a habitat for several bird species is nevertheless supported; and where the serial killer Hannibal Lecter would have enjoyed a brief respite from his incarceration but one which he sneeringly rejected? 101 Plum Islands
Newsnight won't be the same without that wonderful, sneering camel face. The Sun
The sneering turns septic all it touches. Times, Sunday Times
So your sneering is disingenuous, because not even you’re going to argue that the federal government could recreate what takes place in the DC suburbs on a national level. Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell To Attempt First Non-Horrible SOTU Response in American History
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
As a potential politician, Hanson was brilliant at capturing attention, the perfect foil for sneering " sophisticates " who so amusedly knew what xenophobia meant, but so conceitedly didn't recognise their own bigotry.
Surely the whole event reeked of the political correctness that you've made a fortune from sneering at?
Far from sneering at our obsolete goods, they'd be raving about all our fabulous antiques.
His eyes speak volumes and a sneering curl of his lip or raising of the brow conveys as much as a page of dialogue or explanation.
Top-hatted footmen guard the entrances, sneering politely at the clientele and keeping the passing rabble at bay.
Can negative ninnies like my mother, who raise their families in dark, sneering realms of impossibility, be taught to embrace the possible?
Such is the lazy refrain of third-rate comedians, sneering metropolitan commentators and people who have never visited but believe everything they read or hear.
Their sneering interrogatory, "Can't you see that Democrats and Republicans are all the same?" leaves us feeling like the playground narc justifying why we finked on the cool kids. Mike Larsen: WTF Is an Independent Voter?
Both treat honest hard-working taxpayers with sneering contempt. The Sun
He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
Cursing himself for what he called his egregious folly in making himself the slave of a mere lady's attendant, and for having given the parish, should they know of her refusal, a chance of sneering at him -- certainly a ground for thinking less of his standing than before -- he went home to the Old House, and walked indecisively up and down his back-yard. Desperate Remedies
He was contemptuous and sneering in pointing out that we were in the wrong carriage.
The media fixation on all things negative is so ubiquitous now - and any attempt at "cosiness" or "optimism" is dismissed so sneeringly by the chattering classes and ordinary Joes alike - that I find it hard to imagine any other way. The norms of Norman Rockwell | Peter Preston
= Mephistoph´eles = (5 _syl. _), the sneering, jeering, leering attendant demon of Faust in Goethe’s drama of _Faust_, and Gounod’s opera of the same name. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
So it is daft, wrong, self-defeating and also defensive to respond to everyone who doesnt know the inverse square law AS THOUGH they were an arrogant mousehole who is secretly sneering at you because you havent seen Hamlet. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
spoke in a sneering jeering manner
For a professional footballer, any footballer for that matter, to admit that he waited over three years to pay an opponent back for standing over him and sneering, to me, shows a lack of basic cop-on.
The general run of London restaurants may be gastronomically indifferent, decoratively indistinguishable, staffed by sneering tyros and apprentice boors but there's no gainsaying the energy and optimistic bounce of the PR trade.
Alan Rickman has a lot of fun reprising his role as the sneering Professor Snape and Robbie Coltrane is routinely excellent as the genial Hagrid.
He'd found some young man in clothes that were too big for him, sneering and making obscene gestures while some very beautiful but very whorish young women danced around him.
Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys.
Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
But then, with a shrug, he went back inside: this was hardly the time for sneering at pillars.
And the sneering that accompanies every use of the word pawnbroker is palpable. Beachwood Reporter
He's also had to cope with people sneering at his ability to write books at superhuman speed. Times, Sunday Times
I looked above them to see everyone else that was in the library sneering and sniggering at me.
Far from sneering at our obsolete goods, they'd be raving about all our fabulous antiques.
He falls into that Rapid Transit pit of ours and has more fun out of the tumble than the sneering 26,448 who stand above untumbled. Mince Pie
Both know how to ask worthwhile questions and to draw an interviewee out without sneering at them.
There are the slighting, sneering references to the "muscular Christianity" of Tony Blair, whom the original presents as " Bush's Iraq soulmate ".
Pointing out that media poshos sneering at council houses isn't much of a groundbreaker.
Both treat honest hard-working taxpayers with sneering contempt. The Sun
As Michael at Musing's musings notes, (and h/t to him for the lead), this will lead to a great howl from the Orcosphere, claiming that yet again the liberal elites are trashing the president, sneering at him from their ivory towers. December 2006
There is Dick Wildfire being attired, with the aid of the _friseur_ and the tailor, and under the sneering inspection of Sam Sharp, his Yorkshire valet, according to the latest The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
I don't like that superior, sneering tone of his.
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
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
This was the most startling feature and the one that caused the most bickering and sneering from the rest of the industry: a parachute for the entire plane. Freedom of the Skies
Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
As far as I can see, it's the privately educated sneering at the under-educated.
Her wide mouth was twisted into a sneering frown.
The sneering henchmen that talked to her earlier walked forward and handed him a switchblade from his pocket.
He was not yet certain that the grim, sneering stranger was his father.

How To Use Sneering In A Sentence

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