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is sneering
  • present progressive of sneer (3rd person singular).

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Somewhere above, the Black Mamba is sneering down on us.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2024

"A pandemic doesn't recognise borders, whether they are geographical or ideological. And when the dark cloud is sneering at you, then there's no harm is sharing a prayer."

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

The correct response to them is sneering, ‘They’re rebooting that?’

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016

Nothing takes the pleasure out of driving like the suspicion that at every four-way stop, someone in a fuel-efficient compact is sneering at my moral deficiencies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he says to the class, There is sneering here.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt