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
Mr Derry told the inquest in response: "I don't believe that to be correct. The body language and the snigger, I don't recognise that".
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 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
As she reached for her last arrow, she heard one of the competitors, a red-haired mercenary named Renault, snigger.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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
She sniggers with her colleague as she passes on my request – to speak to an expert on male circumcision – before informing me they don’t have one.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
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
There were sniggers here and there and swift glances.
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
She understood the cult of sensibility, and sniggered at it.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017
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
Phineas Nigellus paused again in his struggles to free his eyes and sniggered.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
Now look here, we will not tolerate any jokes about this one, so stop sniggering at the back.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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
Crabbe was sniggering, apparently very pleased with himself.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
