sniggering

Example Sentences

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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

Remorse must be tempered by a resolution to remain uncouth, just as a professional agreement to play a little ball must be undercut by subversive sniggering.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020

"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

Percy, who hadn’t noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read “Pinhead,” kept asking them all what they were sniggering at.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling