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sneer
verb as in mock, condemn
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Signing on to “The Apprentice” sent Strong’s prep work into overdrive, including studying video of Cohn to learn his “sui generis” voice — a hectoring New York sneer that’s authoritative but rarely loud — and interviewing Cohn profiler Ken Auletta.
Trump used to sneer that Kennedy was a "Radical Left Democrat," which is false, and that he's the "dumbest member" of the Kennedy clan, which is fair enough.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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