Example Sentences

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Of course she does; after all, this is comic book art, not “fine” art, and the cultural elite, like countless parents, have sneered at comics since time immemorial.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2014

Once upon a time, people would have sneered at someone being christened Jack.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2013

Another author might have sneered when asked to lay bare his methodology.

From Slate • May 16, 2013

The early punks might well have sneered at the moog but analogue synthetics were the alternative sound of 1977: White Riot AND Moss Garden, God Save the Queen AND I Feel Love.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013

He would have sneered, then, at the upholstered period chairs, the looped drapes, the men and women cut from a glossy whisky ad.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood