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sneers

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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A miserable man, And ill-conditioned, Sneers at everything: One thing he knows not, Which he ought to know, That he is not free from faults.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

Sneers, contumely, reproach, every thing that gentlemen could say, and many things which gentlemen could not say, have been uttered against New England.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel

Sneers and hints to this effect followed every panegyric of Mrs Hart; and robbed approbation of its pleasure, though they could not of its value.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny