How To Use Snigger In A Sentence
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He began to laugh, and some of the henchmen sniggered too.
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I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
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Sniggers because you get four-by-two from the armourer who has a hooked tool for getting broken pull-th roughs out of the barrel.
Bottled Spider
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Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
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There was something of a froideur between us, dating from an occasion a few years earlier when Sue had caught me sniggering over one of her class work sheets.
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Perhaps it starts with you screaming about finding your reading glasses only to be sniggeringly told by your resident sniggerer that they are perched on top of your head.
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They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
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Maybe it's the beribboned high waistlines, maybe it's the delicate petticoats or maybe it's those slightly ridiculous bonnets, but whatever the reason, behind-the-hand sniggers are a certainty.
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We started to laugh again, muffling our sniggers with our mittened hands.
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The one with the thinning blonde hair made a remark at which the second man sniggered.
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Kenny sniggered softly, but Jason shot his younger brother an annoyed look.
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You can imagine the silence, broken perhaps by a stifled snigger, that met that suggestion.
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Felicity took one look at old Mrs. Briney and burst out laughing, sniggering and pointing at her.
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It couldn't make up its mind whether to be intentionally, camply sneery and sniggery or just boldly melodramatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lucky won't even speak to me, Frederick's standing over me with a horsewhip, and Phenny can't stop sniggering.
Oh, the Agony...
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The assembled news pack sniggered quietly as the school ma'am got her just deserts.
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But unlike in ordinary life, their tales of downfall are not treated with sniggers; they're treated with awe, a certain kind of humility, and sympathy and understanding.
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We tend to snigger at anyone or anything that suggests we take sex too seriously, let alone explore the potential for sex to be mind-altering. 'In the West we diminish sex.
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It never fails, and the uncontrollable sniggering and whooping that follows is one of the best pick-me-ups prescribable.
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I heard the class snigger as I buried my head under my arms.
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It turned out that the charitable types were then able to hold up a 5lb weight significantly longer than those who sniggeringly trousered the cash.
The Register
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If anyone speaks to them, they look sideways at one another and stifle their sniggers.
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He lifted his shirt to show his muscles and later in the programme, sniggered that this was the ‘best health club’ around.
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She'd smile at him more if he replaced his veil with a mirror," one servant sniggeringly observed.
The Mad Ship
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They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.
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Winston Churchill and Johnny Cash were fans – damn it, even the Hoff has dabbled in diesel-hydraulic miniatures – so ignore the sniggers, and embrace a weekend devoted to the oft-misunderstood pursuit of model railways.
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There was a shocked silence followed by a few sniggers from the commentary box.
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_was_ found out at once, and which drew a creditable and not in the least Tartuffian protest from Warburton, is a far more serious matter -- not so much because of the licence in subject as because of the unwholesome and sniggering tone.
The English Novel
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We were having a snigger at the bride who was rather large and dressed in a tight pale pink dress.
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We know he's a niggling sniggerer, so I guess that also makes him a sniggering niggler.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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She sniggered and the rest of them laughed along.
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Even if it does all end in sniggers, at least you can say you weren't afraid to try.
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A snorter is a snob expressing their disapproval, while a sniggerer is insensitive, unsympathetic and immature.
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But the dialogue is so poorly scripted that in places the audience snigger at supposedly profound moments.
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They gushed enthusiastically about the landscape and then sniggered strangely and asked if we realised the inhabitants there had two heads.
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A knowing snigger normally followed, but the sniggerers never acknowledged the fundamentally undemocratic assumption underpinning this kind of argument.
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If it were restricted to a few sniggers among the public at large about the academic quality of these degrees, it wouldn't be too bad.
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A boy, no more than nineteen, with sideburns and a weak chin, muttered something in the ear of the man next to him, who sniggered.
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But because of our sniggers and our sneers, we overlooked two rather surprising corollaries to this glamour business.
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I fought to keep from rolling my eyes, and I felt Gabriel stifle a snigger next to me.
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We are great spontaneous sniggerers and we can do it in unison without any prompting from one another.
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I thought for a while I heard a snigger from somewhere nearby, but realising that sniggering is an ungentlemanly thing to do, coming higher than smirking on the List of Unpleasant Traits, I knew I must be mistaken.
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Snigger-snee 'em; the _Scotch_ Cook them; and the wild _Irish_ eat 'em.
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709)
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No, the bishop has taken to wearing the robes of his honorary divinity doctorate (from London University) on public occasions and fellow bishops are beginning to snigger uncharitably.
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Glancing round with an imbecile smile, you sniggeringly observe that "it hasn't got much hair has it?
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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His anti-religiosity, though sometimes greatly exaggerated, was a bad stumbling-block; although he was free from the snigger of Voltaire and of Sterne, you could not prevent him, as Horace Walpole complains of his distinguished sire, from blurting out the most improper remarks and stories at the most inconvenient times and in the most unsuitable companies; while his very multiscience, and his fertility of thought and imagination, kept him in a whirl which hindered his "settling" to anything.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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On the other hand (insert snigger here) ... to be "polie il faut donner de la main droite".
Tetu - French Word-A-Day
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Everyone sniggered behind his back for his lack of personality.
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Then, for a while, people sniggered at us and called us an irrelevance.
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Their sniggers and smirks would come to a halt when they would then discover that their hands were empty.
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She sniggered softly, as if she'd never heard anything more ridiculous in her life.
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I hear the beginning of a snigger in the back of the classroom.
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If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
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So I turned around to see all of Conners friends pointing and sniggering at me.
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His friends sniggered with disbelief when he said was no longer using any drugs at all.
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I sniggered again, but didn't comment.
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This version is puerile, including jokes that could hardly have raised a snigger when first heard and turns of speech abandoned for over a generation.
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Her shabby appearance drew sniggers from the guests.
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They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.
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A group of fisherman passed behind him and sniggered.
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I'll have you sniggerers know that as well as being a churchgoer, this chap was a very good rugby player.
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A couple of them then came forward to me sniggeringly, satisfied that they were not to be reported to Peking or wherever their commander-in-chief may have his residence -- they probably had no more idea than I had.
Across China on Foot
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You look at the old fogies and you snigger, and then you shock yourself when you calculate how few years there are between you and them.
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This version is puerile, including jokes that could hardly have raised a snigger when first heard and turns of speech abandoned for over a generation.
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The other girls on the team just stare at me, while I hear a deep snigger somewhere in the background.
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There was unkind sniggering among opposition bowsies when the question of putting the Luas on stilts at the Red Cow roundabout came up.
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When asked if things will be different now as he is attached, he sniggered: "I can still fall in love easily!"
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I woke up to the sound of stifled sniggers.
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In the main variant, the legend relies both on the sniggeringly received news of the defeat of the father's expectation and on the mangling of the English language - a grammatically incorrect sentence with toponymic consequences.
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I was still sniggering quietly when something slimy hit me in the head.
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News that would normally have me sniggering, like the rest of you.
The Sun
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There are those who snigger that it was a fine strategy by the old comrades, who have perfected the art of using each other for keeping power within their grasp.
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What are you sniggering at? This is a serious poem.
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Now I am hiding in my room sniggering & eating ice cream, & in a second I'll probably start giggling uncontrollably & burbling about Jim Morrison.
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When I announced at training that my car had been stolen, there were a few sniggers.
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Having been a dedicated smoker for many years now, I was headed downstairs for a cigarette, when I heard quiet sniggers in the stairwell.
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We were having a snigger at the bride who was rather large and dressed in a tight pale pink dress.
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He sniggered, and with overlate politeness tried to cut his snigger off short.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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There were sniggers and giggles all around the room and then everyone started talking.
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I could hear Beth snigger in the background and cringed at how embarrassing this was.
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We were having a snigger at the bride who was rather large and dressed in a tight pale pink dress.
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The faux sadness is actually sniggeringly triumphant; if ever a song said 'gotcha', it's this one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sniggering was heard from the other knights standing by the throne dais.
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At one point, it can manifest bloodcurdling creatures to chase and taunt the boys, and then it seems to abandon all that to hide in a closet and snigger, then creep into the dreams of the boys and torture them psychologically ad nauseam.
Archive 2010-07-01
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It'll be as if your feet are sniggering at the rest of you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bermuda shorts are no longer sniggered at, nor are loud, multi-coloured shirts.
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They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.
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Most manufactured pop artists have the sort of career longevity that would cause a mayfly to snigger.
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The three of them smiled and gave each other knowing glances, sniggering quietly.
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Could a man on the street observe a sniggerer at the small upper window, clearly enough to take offence?
The Times Literary Supplement
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And every year we all snigger at 'coterminous stakeholder engagement' and 'predictors of beaconicity'.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were sniggers and giggles all around the room and then everyone started talking.
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It provides thrillingly brutal, sniggeringly comical side-scrolling action, with just enough thoughtfulness to raise it comfortably above novelty status.
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She gave me a sneer, and sniggered, ‘Ha, then you go back and queue lor.’
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The skill of the kitchen is exemplary, the service was sniggeringly formal, with liveried waiters standing like footmen bearing trays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dating agencies were once sniggered at as the last resort of those too diffident, dull or undesirable to find a partner in the normal course of their social life.
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Not to mention the fact that referring to "steffi" or "iggy" or "Boob Rae" is de rigueur there, because it is sniggeringly funny, just a joke and why are you lefties getting your panties in a bunch.
There are no words ...
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Women snigger at men for being unable to work a washing machine, men snigger at women for being bad drivers.
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Every dish was another small, pretentious, sniggeringly tasteless disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were a few sniggers but it just sounded as though we were crying.
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I wonder if readers take these cliches and contrived metaphors at face value, or do they all snigger at the florid prose.
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So one never wants to be at another dinner party and asked sniggeringly "What do you do? and What is your Business Model?
1.0 Bears vs 2.0 Bulls
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Today the temples are a major tourist attraction, well worth the grinding bus trip from Agra or Gwalior, and the curious arrive in droves from all over the world to gawp and snigger at this unyielding display of raunchiness.
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This should be a moment of hope for humanity; but any cheering will be drowned out by the sounds of drilling, the crashing of distant trees, and a low, smug Texan snigger.
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And every year we all snigger at 'coterminous stakeholder engagement' and 'predictors of beaconicity'.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were a few sniggers from the back, which soon became open laughter.
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Perhaps that will put an end to the sniggering.
Times, Sunday Times
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I looked above them to see everyone else that was in the library sneering and sniggering at me.
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With hindsight, when the 2000 election became the closest ever, the Florida shenanigans seemed prefigured in that sniggering expression, which less became the 43rd president than Alfred E.
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The more serious the artist's intentions, the greater the potential for school assembly-style sniggering.
Times, Sunday Times
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His ambition was almost stifled by sniggering.
Times, Sunday Times
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For as I said in my Mail article, the cruelty and obscenities on display in the Sachs episode were not some aberration; the reason Ross and Brand earn their huge fortunes from the BBC is precisely because their so called ‘comedy’ is composed of sniggering obscenities and lavatorial gags.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It's played for laughs, or should that be sniggers?
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Following the accusations of homophobia levelled at the sketch show, here lesbianism is largely confined to extras tickling tonsils in the background while Fletch's fear of 'bumming' is just one more instance of crass, sniggering dialogue in a script that's wretched with it.
Chortle News RSS
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It is the suggestive, sometimes prurient, power of euphemism that lends itself so serviceably to the poet on one hand, and to the busybody, huckster, or sniggerer on the other.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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It's kind of like your BT colleague "Neo Conservative" perpetually getting publicly weepy over Canadian military dead while sniggeringly dismissing their deaths at the same time.
And we'll never forget ... uh, what's her name.
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He looked round, twinkling, for a laugh to follow what he meant for a joke; and the obsequious bandsmen uttered a sniggering kind of concreted grin, followed instantly by a loud-toned sonorous _Phoomp_! from the huge bell-mouth of the contra-bass.
The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
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Our once vaunted political system is now the stuff of satire and sniggering.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few people sniggered and he smirked, balancing his blazer on the other arm, fully aware of his authority.
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Stop sniggering, that could be car engines, behind cupboards, etc.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, the comedies of Judd Apatow are often very funny, but in their sniggering anxiety about entering the "real world" (a larkier take on a topic also close to the heart of Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson and Brooklyn-based Michel Gondry) reflect a malaise that palsies US culture more broadly.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Sabrina's three friends sniggered and Sabrina stuck her tongue out.
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Of course there was the usual bunch of disbelievers, this time a group of boys in blue jeans and hair gel, who sniggered, albeit a tad apprehensively.
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A couple of women get self-conscious about the terrible silence and attempt to fill it with nervous sniggers.
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Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger,
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads
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He was untrusting, he would snigger at people while they talked and couldn't resist kicking a man when he was down.
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Newspaper headlines regularly snigger at writers "beating off stiff competition" or, when I won the prize in 2006 for my debut novel: "First timer takes sex award".
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When you're viewing someone else's house, don't snigger at the decor or produce a tape measure to start sizing up the windows for curtains.
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They smiled to his face, shook his hand, acted impressed, wished him well, and went away sniggering behind his back.
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To his left, he saw and heard the two youngest of his team snigger, but a steely glare wiped the smug look from their faces.