sneer

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

It is hard to tell if Mr. Hockney intended these works to celebrate with, sneer at, or send up the Hollywood milieu in which he found himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

"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

She waited for the sneer and sarcasm, but it didn’t come.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"Prog is simply great music released from the arid strictures of cool and from the sneers of gatekeepers".

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

“I have no head for trivial things. And you are so very good at them, darling,” he sneers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Lily sneers that Facebook is “a database of old people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

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

He sneers my name in an elaborate, condescending manner.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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

Miller’s wife Katie, a podcaster, sneered on social media that journalists like Alfonsi, who “want to become the story,” lose their integrity when they push back.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

A couple of generations ago, Antiguan dialect was sneered at and children were commonly forbidden to speak it in school.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

And the young man sneered at Wang Lung and he said, “Ah, that son of my cousin’s needs no leading. He can go alone.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

He’s sneering, which is bad enough, but now, oh boy, he does the Thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Her answer, delivered as a sneering little aside: “Yeah.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

When he was called out for it, Musk sent another tweet sneering, "Toxoplasma gondii is a danger to our democracy," a reference to the debunked myth that cat owners have a mentally destabilizing parasite.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

Gully was bent over, his face sneering into mine.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore