Example Sentences

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He’s a sneerer: “I’m not sorry that I crashed your party.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021

Kravitz is an on-the-make guy, a sneerer at traditional community values and out for himself.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2013

The quote is out of context; no sneerer, I was discussing how the many upwardly mobile institutions were raising faculty salaries and making recruitment difficult for the less affluent.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The sneerer hesitated, and finally said he "guessed it was."

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester