snicker

Example Sentences

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I got several quizzical looks and perhaps a snicker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"Like, wait a minute, you didn't pay anything at all, and yet you still have complaints?" she said with a snicker.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Sometimes, people will snicker at that, as if cheese in and of itself isn't substantial or legitimate enough to constitute as a favorite food, but they are mistaken.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2023

And if it was easy to snicker at “Avatar’s” hippy-dippy sincerity, it was also easy to surrender to its multiplex transcendentalism, its world of synthetically crafted natural wonders.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022

For one period each day, you were not allowed to touch me or snicker behind my back no matter what the latest rumor.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher