sneer

Outside and looking up at it, the pony seems to sneer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"This woman is very intelligent, she's not here by chance. And if she does also run for a fourth time, she won't be an opponent we can sneer at," hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

The mouth renders the verdict: a barely perceptible sneer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

She watched them with a sneer, and for this she felt guilty; she had guarded their memories so preciously and yet, finally seeing them, she watched them with a sneer.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With barely a greeting to the rest of the musicians, he starts to sing, challenging their earsplitting guitars with his lacerating sneers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

As one person in the new movie sneers, “Eww, who wants to be relatable?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The Senate, which generally sneers at the amateurism of House legislation, would have its turn; if the Senate were successful, the two chambers would then have to bridge what could be substantial differences.

From Slate ● May 20, 2025

“I ain’t an angel, you ain’t heaven-sent,” he sneers in “I Had Some Help,” a collaboration with a newly countryfied Post Malone.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Gilly had had plenty of practice staring down sneers, but it was hard to imagine that someone like Nonnie had.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

When I said I had moved up from Fort Lauderdale, my host sneered: “Florida is a swamp.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

These sequences didn’t say, Hey, good to see you! — they sneered, Do you even go here?

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

Rowling sneered at Oates’ concern, while Musk referred to the author as “a bit of an extinctionist.”

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

Caroline, 29, admits she "sneered a bit" at romance in her early twenties.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

“Maybe all that fame’s going to your head, Captain,” Hatchet sneered, “because you seem to think you can waltz in here and get what you want with one gun, when the truth is you’re outnumbered.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Perhaps more seriously, “Idiocracy” allows the viewer to feel accomplished for doing nothing beyond sneering at their fellow Americans.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

He turned into a sneering moral philosopher, all the while keeping his feet up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

It bragged about the academic prestige of its schools and reminded its athletes that they were students first, sneering at all those other schools that had the audacity to win at all costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch have spent the best part of the last year swearing, shouting and sneering at each other.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

Now Mr. Fitt was a grim man, an enforcer, with a small, sneering mouth; in another life he might have been a carnivorous fish.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen