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Adjective

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

Showing or feeling strong dislike or disrespect

Noun

Mockery or taunts, or the act of mocking or taunting

The state or property of being haughty

Verb

Present participle for to smirk or laugh in a contemptuous or mocking manner

Present participle for to mock, ridicule or snub with disdain or contempt

Present participle for to subject to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

Present participle for to speak loudly and angrily, typically at someone or a group of people

Present participle for to say something quickly and irritably

Present participle for to give a half-suppressed, typically scornful laugh

Present participle for make a grimace

Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about

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Adjective

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Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

skeptical^US

sceptical^UK

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Adjective

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Showing or feeling strong dislike or disrespect

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

libelous^US

libellous^UK

too big for your boots

unfavorable^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

turning up your nose at

looking down your nose at

throwing one's weight around

pleased with yourself

too big for your breeches

too big for your britches

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

self-approving

intrusive

goody-goody

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

honourable^UK

honorable^US

offensively self-assertive

blowing one's own horn

wrapped up in oneself

throwing one's weight about

phony^US

phoney^UK

throwing weight around

jaunty

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

think one is the cat's pyjamas

smart-assed^US

not backwards in coming forwards

smart-arsed^UK

blowing one's own trumpet

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

flushed with success

like the cat that's got the cream

of preconceived ideas

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Noun

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Mockery or taunts, or the act of mocking or taunting

rancor^US

rancour^UK

pulling someone's chain

backhanded compliment

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Noun

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The state or property of being haughty

pretence^UK

pretense^US

exaggerated self-opinion

feeling of superiority

phoney^UK

phony^US

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Verb

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Present participle for to smirk or laugh in a contemptuous or mocking manner

“He would constantly sneer at them but they brushed it off and just went about their business.”

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Present participle for to mock, ridicule or snub with disdain or contempt

“There is too great a readiness to sneer at anything they do.”

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Present participle for to subject to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

satirising^UK

satirizing^US

treating with contempt

holding up to ridicule

making a laughing-stock

making a monkey out of

taking the piss out of

laughing out of court

making someone a laughing stock

treating contemptuously

look down one's nose at

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

shouting disapproval at

treating with disdain

blowing raspberries at

giving the Bronx cheer to

turning your nose up at

regarding with contempt

doing an impression of

leading up the garden path

fooling about

playing a joke on

pastiching

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Verb

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Present participle for to speak loudly and angrily, typically at someone or a group of people

Verb

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Present participle for to say something quickly and irritably

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Present participle for to give a half-suppressed, typically scornful laugh

giving a half-suppressed laugh

snorting

giving a suppressed laugh

crowing

laughing like a drain

falling about

roaring with laughter

bursting out laughing

creasing up

hooting

shaking with laughter

dissolving into laughter

shrieking with laughter

howling with laughter

laughing irritatingly

hooting with laughter

falling down laughing

having hysterics

expressing amusement

rolling in the aisles

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Present participle for make a grimace

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Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about

libelling^UK

libeling^US

dishonoring^US

dragging through the mud

dragging through the mire

casting aspersions on

spreading scandal about

doing a hatchet job on

running a smear campaign against

blackening someone's name

running smear campaign

minimizing^US

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

minimising^UK

bringing into disrepute

disrespecting

soiling

bringing discredit to

tarring and feathering

ripping up and down

blackening the name of

pummelling^UK

sullying the reputation of

blackening the reputation of

conducting a smear campaign against

slanging

throwing brickbats at

cutting to the quick

pillorying

dragging someone's name through the mud

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

belaboring^US

blackening the character of

taking down

miscalling

belabouring^UK

putting in a bad light

showing up

writing false reports about

hitting where one lives

spreading tales about

marking wrong

calling names

dragging name through mud

putting someone in their place

making someone eat crow

taking down a peg or two

treating disrespectfully

cutting dead

hurting somebody's feelings

railing

displeasing

blaming

stepping on one's toes

showing in a bad light

bringing into disfavour

raising your hackles

giving the cold shoulder

putting your back up

ruffling one's feathers

confronting

giving a zinger

making somebody's hackles rise

giving someone a dressing-down

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