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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

McCurry never belittled anyone, though occasionally the Bigfoot questions would cause other reporters to snicker.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

If your first instinct, like mine, is to snicker, know that this self-important drama is devoid of humor.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

I snicker, then blurt out, “Did she pick up my leg!” and suddenly we’re both hysterical.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

“It speaks to my heart and speaks to humanity,” she said over snickers from the audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

That threat was greeted with snickers of laughter.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

I forgot that there were people behind and around me until I heard a few snickers and a scattering of claps, but I didn’t care.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

Critics snickered Texas created a network simply to show reruns of Vince Young’s game-wining dash to victory over Southern California in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

Another picketer said that one of the queens who chose not to join them snickered at them as they walked out that day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

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 snickered, remembering the pitiful look on Tamika’s face after her failed spy attempt.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

I wasn’t the only one: A small contingency of the audience at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater started snickering and laughing before he had even fully stepped onstage.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

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

I must look as awkward as I feel, because I can hear the boys snickering.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina