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View definitions for sneering

sneering

adjective as in scoffing

noun as in derision

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Example Sentences

Despite the advanced age of the candidate, the Trump campaign was characterized by petulance and immaturity, adopting the countenance of a spoiled rich kid sneering at his mom for telling him to do his homework.

From Salon

He adds that they “represented 'the empire striking back' as a business from a former colony took over the motherland's prize assets, reversing the sneering attitude with which British industrialists looked upon the Tata Group a century earlier”.

From BBC

Her Twitter feed shows more of the same: retweets of concern trolls who denounce reproductive technologies that allow women to wait until they're stable to have babies, sneering at mothers who use daycare, and insisting marriage only works when the wife submits to her husband.

From Salon

Writing afterwards on X, she said: "The sneering contempt of 'journalists' will never stop me from calling out racism and Islamophobic hate."

From BBC

They are not living in reality, at least if the sneering definition on Urban Dictionary is to be believed; it argues that Disney adults are among “the most terrifyingly intense people you’ll ever encounter.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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