sneer at

"It can be easy to sneer at the arrival of a new Christmas movie," noted the Hollywood Reporter's Lovia Gyarkye.

Sir Keir dismissed the idea as "desperate" and said the UK doesn't need a a "teenage Dad's Army" but Mr Sunak hit back with "all he can do is sneer at it because you don't have any ideas".

The song lyrics, “I pick up a banjo and they sneer at me/Cause I’m Black myself,” really stick out to me.

They are aware that much of the world is hostile toward their country and their religion, but rather than try to deal with the hatred, they tend to sneer at it, defy it, and proudly proclaim a determination to go it alone, bolstered by a pride in how they transformed their land into an economic powerhouse and improbably won a series of multifront wars.

Reality TV makes it easy and even tempting to sneer at people like McIntyre and Cortés because of what they don’t know or haven’t asked.