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
Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
"The name Shag makes people snigger but a shag is a seabird who has to fight for survival against impossible odds. That's very appropriate for Happisburgh."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
He could hear a wicked snigger followed by a cry of despair.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"Little did they know why I was interested!" he sniggers.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2019
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
She could hear sniggers, far off and cruel.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
“There’s Dizzy and Iggy and Lizzy and Tizzy and Gilby and Giddy …” sniggered keyboard FM player Roddy Bottum.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2019
At one point this sort of behaviour would have been glorified as rock’n’roll, its buffoonery sniggered at.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
He could hear feet moving and then someone sniggered.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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
"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
Grant remembers the case being "a riveting and juicy business" that was "a source of much sniggering" when he was in school.
From BBC ● May 10, 2018
As much as Tyrion enjoyed sniggering at that, he had come to prefer taking his meals alone.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
