snickering

VERB

laugh at mockingly

Synonyms

WEAK

chortle chuckle giggle guffaw hee-haw smirk sneer teehee titter

VERB

laugh at

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chortle chuckle giggle smirk sneer

STRONG

guffaw hee-haw knock mock snigger titter

WEAK

sniggle tehee

Antonyms

STRONG

praise

Example Sentences

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"What big fight?" queried Whistler, unpuckering his lips.

From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

"Oh, Papa Fisher!" cried Polly with a merry peal in which Jasper, unpuckering his lips from the Strauss effort, had joined, "we must have looked"—Here she went off again.

From Five Little Peppers Midway by Sidney, Margaret