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sneers

  • plural of sneer.
  • present tense form of sneer (3rd person singular).

Example Sentences

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Sneers Wayne: "If you want to scrub up her soul ... it may take a little time."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sneers a White House official: "We wouldn't be having this trouble with the Senate if Lloyd Bentsen were alive."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sneers are cheap weapons--the mere side-arms of pretension and frippery--but they never bear so deadly a gibe as when effectually turned on the sneerer.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Sneers reached the faces of several men in the crowd.

From The Two-Gun Man by Seltzer, Charles Alden

Sneers and attempts at ridicule are not arguments.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady