snigger
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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
Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
"The name Shag makes people snigger but a shag is a seabird who has to fight for survival against impossible odds. That's very appropriate for Happisburgh."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
This causes a few Vo-Tech computer-programming geeks to snigger.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
Australia is yet to see the best of Smith – he averages 23.16 against them from six one-day internationals - and any suggestions he is Gilchrist's heir will be met by sniggers down under.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2016
“I heartily agree with Rod Tucker that standards should be maintained on the cricket pitch,” sniggers Robin Hazlehurst.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
His sniggers became uncontrollable, his body jumped and Piggy rebuked him with dignity.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Earlier in the inquest, a witness statement said that Alan Derry had a "mocking and unpleasant tone" and "sniggered loudly" in a meeting.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Some people exchanged pleasantries, while others darted their eyes and quietly sniggered.
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2022
Political journalists scratched their heads, or sniggered at the portentousness of the phrase.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2018
I’ve sniggered inwardly at the wide-eyed idiocy of mothers buying hers-and-hers Elsa dresses to wear with their daughters on Halloween.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2015
They raised their glasses: “A rose by any other name...” they said, and sniggered to hide their rising panic.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
But it’s not the ’90s until two of the most idiotic teenagers return, sniggering along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
"Not long ago, they called him 'too extreme,' 'aggressively and dangerously wrong' and 'downright dangerous,'" Baker wrote in sniggering prose.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2020
Popular music videos of the day would play out, while a couple of sniggering delinquents sat back and ripped them apart.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2018
Percy, who hadn’t noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read “Pinhead,” kept asking them all what they were sniggering at.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
