snicker

I got several quizzical looks and perhaps a snicker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

"Like, wait a minute, you didn't pay anything at all, and yet you still have complaints?" she said with a snicker.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

And that Americans can still snicker in the face of official wrong — and should.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

Sometimes, people will snicker at that, as if cheese in and of itself isn't substantial or legitimate enough to constitute as a favorite food, but they are mistaken.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023

I hear a snort and a snicker behind me.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

In point 16 of the X post, Karp wrote: "The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

I can also explain why, despite the snickers and stares and perpetually blooming bruises, it’s still worth it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2025

But while the issue can generate snickers from some in Congress, serious lawmakers in both parties think it’s crucial for national security to figure out what these phenomena are — and where they’re coming from.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

That threat was greeted with snickers of laughter.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

Stella clamped her hand over her mouth, stifling her own snickers.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

They snickered two years later when he announced that while he personally opposed abortion, he now supported a woman’s right to choose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

The gullible may have stood in awe, but sophisticated travelers scoffed and snickered at the big egg, obviously laid by an ordinary ostrich.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2024

Chinese intellectuals snickered at his often-pompous pronouncements and at efforts by the propaganda apparatus to present him as a great thinker in the mold of Mao.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022

I’m still waiting for that invite,” Laxalt snickered, speaking from a podium emblazoned with Trump’s name.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

The twins snickered, but their mother silenced them with a hiss.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

And Ms. Bioh has the girls’ attitudes to her take an implausibly abrupt turn from sycophancy to snickering mockery when Ericka exposes the hollowness of her pretensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“No, I’m not,” says Emma Stone, failing to stay exactly stone-faced while pointing at a snickering Yorgos Lanthimos: “He thinks that I’m …”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Crystal and Taylor Probst, the wife and the daughter of cyclist Andreas Probst, said they saw Jesus Ayala and Jzamir Keys snickering to each other and making vulgar gestures toward them before Tuesday’s hearing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

The words “Tom Holland” and “spoilers” can immediately illicit snickering.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Jonah could hear a few kids in the back of the room snickering.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix