snicker
verb (used without object)
to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
have snickered
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present perfectof snicker.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Critics may have snickered — The Washington Post’s Tom Shales noted that “The Love Boat” pulls “the median level of mediocrity down to unfathomable lows” — but audiences watched in droves.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2021
At that his mother would have snickered, I guess.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2018
Pundits have snickered at these failures, which render the candidate ineligible for 10 of the 54 delegates awarded on Tuesday.
From Time ● Mar. 16, 2012
Many have snickered at Pearl getting caught, as he turned over an audio tape of a star recruit saying he was offered $80,000 and an S.U.V. by then-Illinois assistant Jimmy Collins.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010
The Alps, if they could, would have snickered in 1796 at a shaggy-haired, large-skulled, short youth of 27 with a tatterdemalion army at his back.
From Time Magazine Archive
