sneeringly

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It sneeringly implied they were “a bunch of dilettantes,” Sonenshein said, amateurs seeking some rainbows-and-roses ethical governance outside the hard-nosed practicalities of party-boss politics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

The Collaboration's efforts were embraced by nurses and younger doctors, who for the first time had a means of challenging the decisions of their elders — what proponents sneeringly called “eminence-based medicine.”

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2020

In “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood,” the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio sneeringly dismisses the Manson girls as “hippies.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2019

Danny DeVito’s villain lies dying after an almighty shootout and sneeringly asks Gene Hackman: “Don’t you want to hear my last words?”

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017

"You'll never have revenge, great Hrothgar, mighty as you are," he said, rather sneeringly, in a hard, dull voice.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye