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Sentence Examples He drew his mouth back into a sneer, revealing his menacing canine eye teeth. From the security of their own homes, many sneer at the get-rich-quick crowd that lost money when the tech bubble burst. She explains, still gracious though with a slight sneer to her smiling nature this time. I pointed in both directions when appropriate, my lips curling slightly in a sneer. A tingling feeling crept over his form, and an arrogant sneer then crept over his face. He showed a very strange smile, almost a sneer before crouching a bit down so that he was face to face with me. And so I thought that the massive sneer with which his remarks were greeted was unjustified. The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about. When Sean was safely out of earshot, he allowed his upper lip to curl into the slightest sneer. What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer. He's trying to do away with the cynical sneer and make a genuine film with heartfelt emotion. 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! With a sneer she finished and straightened up, adopting an air that dared me to challenge her. They sneer as much at self-employed plumbers and brickies as they do at those they see as chinless wonders. He would no doubt sneer at the universalist ideals of that generation, but they informed the class struggles of the inter-war period. The colonialist has a smug, secure sneer on his face, like a dire dare to retaliate. You're feeling pity for a creature that would sneer at the concept if she understood it. You had to hear the sneer in his voice for that, and the ludicrous interruptions. How ironic then that some women writers sneer at men who enter therapy's allegedly feminised milieu. This time they want their part of public opinion to sneer when they see the television images of voters in polling booths. Show More Sentences Seamus was already out of the car and, once free of it, resumed his cynical sneer. Then, with an inner laugh, knowing how this would affect her, he turned and gave her a derisive sneer. Another marine did his best to sneer and look down his nose, though the effect was hardly impressing. He met my gaze, and his lips curled back in a grimace more sneer than snarl. No one was openly hostile, but a few exhibited a rather disdainful sneer as they walked by. 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. 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. I gave a half hearted attempt at an amused sneer and shook my head, reaching for my book again. In this section of the book we also have repeated evidence that Hewitt is all too often ready with a quick sneer. Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form. She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look. Peter laughed, his voice sounding harsh and ugly, and his mouth twisted into a sardonic sneer. This isn't somewhere for pretentious know-it-alls to sneer at those who do not know a Monet from a Matisse. She shifts in her chair, blinks several times and lets out a tiny laugh, her mouth in a crooked sneer. The man looked at him through battle-hardened hazel eyes, a sneer curling his lip. Meanwhile, you're standing fifty yards away with a sneer, a telephoto lens and a directional microphone. He'd never called me David before, and there was no mistaking the sarcastic sneer in his voice. He looked down at me from his dizzying height, and his sneer drew further across his face as the driver barked a laugh. The attractive part of the vocal delivery is the tone, the snotty sneer with which nearly every line is delivered. It's only tosspots who come to London from nowhere places who sneer at our nation's other fine cities. Show More Sentences 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. Its merciless laugh was like blood bubbling in its tufted throat, an ugly sneer produced in sounds. It was, in fact, not an ugly scene but at best it was one in which there might have been a subtle sneer involved. His bitter frown transformed itself into a sneer and then a contemptuous smile. He smiled at her, and she almost mistook it for a sneer, for the smile did not reach his eyes. Then his mouth twisted into something that was a mixture of a sneer and a smile. And the smile soon subsided to a slight sneer, as if she had seen that look in a million men's eyes before. I turned the sneer into a smile, and not for the first time my mother was unable to return it. The serious magazines felt similarly behooved to weigh in, also largely to sneer. So when they tumble off, the fact that we cheer and sneer is awful, hypocritical, and deeply, sometimes savagely unkind. No liberal stereotype, from Birkenstocks to the French, vegans, and NPR, is too tired to sneer at. 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. 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. At no moment does he pass up the chance of a cheap sneer or a jeer. He looked back with a sneer and a matching gleam in his eye. She wore heavy silver jewelry and had an aristocratic sneer. 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. He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer. It's hard not to sneer at a movie like this, which prostitutes every aspect of the creative process in an all-out attempt to lure viewers into the box office. With another sneer curling his lip, he disappeared into thin air. Show More Sentences It is easy to sneer, of course, at rich people throwing their money about. Her lips puckered for a moment before breaking into a sneer. A sneer twisted the woman's handsome features into something dark. The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter. But insularity or provincialism in the literary community, he said, is nothing to sneer at. The Internet might sneer at Monarch, but all press is good press, after all. I can hear Sam sneer, as he gestures scornfully to my beer bottle with way too little ullage. My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail. To sneer at such a person for their failings is the philosophy of those who seek comfort in the conventional. But before you sneer 'colonial hangover', wait, there is method to the metachronism. His family has recently immigrated to Australia from England, and his peers sneer at him as a Pommie. As Thor rushes her to Asgard for safety, the dark elves attack in spaceships searching for the weapon and Loki escapes with his sneer still intact. Examples from Classical Literature He said it almost with a sneer, but nothing could crush the resurgent glow in her heart. No one who knows to-day dares to sneer at parthenogenesis, or to repeat the slander of Celsus about the Mother of God. We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth. The dwellers in the woods had been inclined to sneer at the town folk as sissified and, in turn, were sneered at for being hicks. Her lip curled, baring teeth of the purest pearl, and a sneer quivered on the highbred nostrils. What does it matter if some may sneer at your thread-bare carpets and frugal fare? In the agony of his disappointment he is about to renounce phene forever as the artists, waiting outside to sneer at him, expect. The lovely lips twisted into a rictus sneer, frightening on that smooth young face, until she got them under control. One night, Allen had woken up to see Darren standing over him, hands planted on his hips, face twisted into an elaborate sneer. It is idle, then, to sneer at 'medical materialism,' and stigmatise it as superficial. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. It must have been more delightful than bull-fighting.They sneer at our bull-fighting, yet do they delight in the shedding of blood. He made an effort to shake off the feeling, and spoke with a sneer. Korak saw that he was nervous and afraid, and his lip curled in a sneer of contempt. He sneered like only car mechanics can sneer and said, the dittlewat in the thingummy has gone. The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is ill-judged. And of course it is all unanswerable, and as I ride along through the evening shadows I sneer at that Great Fetish which Comte called the world. He tapped his breast-pocket with a sneer of bucolic triumph. Then the little stinging insects of the shed began to cavil and sneer. She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones. Show More Sentences The man of the Fancy Repository and Brompton Emporium of Fine Arts can hardly hide the sneer with which he examines these feeble works of art. The sneer passed out of his face, the arrogance out of his demeanour. There was a sneer on the monster as he pressed something on the tube. But this last offer had been accompanied by a sneer, and had tokened the old rascal's scorn of the girl's scrawniness. Down the avenue came boastfully sauntering a lad of sixteen years, although the chronic sneer of an ideal manhood already sat upon his lips. One morning in particular, he started to sneer at me over our matutinal coffee. Robert's thin lips broke into a slight sneer of incredulity. I would not for a moment sneer at anything that helps to keep hearts tender in this hard old world. Do they sneer at my napless hat, and laugh at my tattered elbows? I bowed, yet not so low but that I detected a sneer on Yvonne's lips. But neither man nor woman, in whom good predominates, will smile or sneer, nor bid the Rogues' March be played, in derision of their array. Rameau sank back on his chair with a sullen sneer on his pale lips. You ought not thus to sneer at physic, and make me lose my precious time. It is very well to sneer at money-getting after you have filled your pockets, and Newman, it may be said, should have begun somewhat earlier to moralize thus delicately. Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season. A species of demon showed her with a sneer her old-fashioned luxury. Even the servants, as they knelt down to present the dishes, might be seen to grin and sneer, while the guests were helping themselves to the offered dainties. His black moustache lifted and a white fang twinkled in a sneer. The chief offender seemed to be his highness's brother, whose name alone would lengthen the old man's lantern jaws and pucker his parrot nose into a sneer. It is easy enough for bull-headed clowns to sneer at nerves, but the highest natures are not necessarily those containing the greatest amount of moral brass. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sneer? Words that rhyme with sneer What is the past tense of sneer? What is the plural of sneer? What is the adverb for sneer? What is the adjective for sneer? What is the noun for sneer? Translations for sneer Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sneed sneck sneath sneaky sneak up on sneaks sneered sneering sneeringly sneers sneery sneetches 5-letter Words Starting With s sn sne snee