snigger

Example Sentences

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You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Yes, there could be the odd snigger at the quality of some of the opposition, but then there are no freebies in international football.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2023

Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022

As the great Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole has written, that carries “an unpardonable snigger of elite condescension.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

He could hear a wicked snigger followed by a cry of despair.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques