sneer at
Example Sentences
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Many of us were raised to sneer at social influence—instructed to resist peer pressure at all costs—but there’s another term for thinking about all this that’s less off-putting: role modeling.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
"I think most of our characters were quite warm and quite engaging and we didn't sneer at them or mock them," says Paul.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
It’s easy to sneer at Morris’s antics, but beneath the grotesquery is a real hunger.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
Reality TV makes it easy and even tempting to sneer at people like McIntyre and Cortés because of what they don’t know or haven’t asked.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024
Saying all that stuff about not letting myself be invisible was easy enough in the Spinney, where there was no Edie to sneer at me, nobody to gawk at me or pretend I’m not there.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
